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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.'"
I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert!
I'm wondering where most of you people come. I would guess America.
It's funny, that the most comments are "Haha, Russia, they are stupid/bad".
Are there some old feeling coming out?
I bet most of you don't know a fucking thing about Russia, not even the capital city, but you flame on them.
And to the topic:
I wouldn't say they are the best hackers in the world.
But Russia definitly has _very_ skilled coders and hackers.
I live in Germany, and from time to time, i see some software from russian Companies.
And all they have in common is, that the software is very good in a technical way.
Most of the time it lacks documentation and such stuff, but the Software is good.
Examples: There is a NTFS-driver for Linux which is very fast and supports writing and enryption, and so on.
I have a DOS-Clone written bei a russian firm in assembler with source code (interesting to learn).
Then: There was a game called Republic made by a young russian, which is also known as a very good mathematic.
And there will be (already is?) a game called Stalker which had tons of Previews/articles in every gamer-magazine, here, because of the nice graphic and some new ideas.
And besides, russia has atlest one offical hacker-school. I think it's in St. Petersburg and made by some well-known hacker.
Thats just what came to my mind..