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Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World
Ant writes "ZDNet UK reports that Russians who once hacked for fun are now teaming up to get rich through cybercrime, according to police. The Russian cybercrime division, known as Department K, has warned that Russian hackers are the best in the world. From the article: 'Everyone knows that Russians are good at math...Our software writers are the best in the world, that's why our hackers are the best in the world.'"
As an American, I'll point out that the Russians are the best (Black Hat) Hackers in the world.
Why? Simple. They're organized. VERY well organized. There are massive rings of talented hackers who have found ways of cracking into boxes, zombifiying them stealing all the information they can out of them, then using them to send spam and phishing scams. They steal credit card numbers by the thousands.
For the most part, such hackers in the rest of the world work alone, or in small groups. In Russia, there are numerous and large rings of these hackers, backed by the Russian mafia. Thanks to an astounding lack of law in Russia, that means they're basically untouchable...
So yeah. I'd say they're the best in the world. Not that there's much pride to derive from that... Just like the Nigerians are quite proficient at e-mail scams...
So you're saying they improved on the original inventions by someone else?
I still don't see where the grandparent post is wrong.
Oh, and Edison almost certainly didn't come up with the improvement - he worked a sweatshop of inventors, where he took the credit for other people's work... much like modern corporations.
Edison was little more than a typical businessman with no morals.
hold on pal, The Bat! is made by RITlabs, it is a Moldovan company. Moldova is NOT Russia.
Anyway, I know what I'm saying, because the company I work at, has a lot of common projects with RITlabs (their office is nextdoor). I can see the building from my balcony.
I admit that WinRAR is the a great archiver, and Acronis TrueImage does kick Ghost\DriveImage\etc... but The Bat! is a 100% moldovan product.
uhhm... here's their contact info: http://ritlabs.com/en/about/contacts.php
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Come on man, when I'm at work, all I have to do is walk out of my office, then go 7m forward, open a door - and there I am, in the heart of RITlabs.
It is _not_ a russian company; the program is _not_ made by russians.
It is true that their developers speak russian... But you don't happen to know the history of Moldova, do you?
[because of the way things evolved.. everyone refers to any ex-soviet country as 'Russia', and to all the ex-soviet citizens as 'russians'. but this is a mistake]
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