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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.'"
...they lost the ACM contest to the Chinese.
I guess by "best" they mean "second best."
'our hackers are the best in the world.'
A lot of script kiddies claim that..
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I'm sure we'll find out soon, all over the front pages of Department K's website, along with the strange Chinese term "0wn3d".
Yeah ok, I think not enough of your have witnessed the glory of Goldeneye. As Borris clearly demonstrated, "I am inveincible!" And so it is.
All they need is an IBM computer with 14.400 bps modem 2x cd-rom and and a lot of cigarettes. That's it!
No no.. I know. You say, what about babe.. but no. The 2x cd-rom is what made it magic.
I bet that article will read "CHINESE hackers best in the world" in a coupla hours :)
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...
The lightbulb was invented in 1854 by Johann Goebel (http://www.friarsmarketing.com/commercial/general .html).
The phone by some italian i dont remenber the name of, the television by some scot and etc etc etc.
Yt really shows the power of [american] marketing that product-copying is perceived as innovation.
In your face Germany and Hungary! USA! USA!
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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.
Russia has top notch schools cranking out top notch programmers, and no jobs for them. At all. A frightening level of Russia's wealth is concentrated in the Mafia, and in order for stealing them more, they pay more per month than most Russian citizens earn legitimately per year (Which still isn't much). What police there are who actually desire to establish law and order are either killed, threatened, or bribed into complacency. Politicians on the National scale are busy stealing power while politicians on the local scale are busy stealing cash wherever and whenever they can, forming a bona fide kleptocracy.
It's not just 'a lack of law and order'. It's a lack of law and order and legitimate jobs and money in a place with well educated and well trained populace with a very strong criminal organization.
"American kids in my opinion are often more well rounded at youth" That would be the steady stream of Big Macs and chocolate they consume. =P
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(I hear the Klingon translation is also quite good.)
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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heh, how did Romania get dragged into this? I'm from Romania and I can relate my personal experience. I was given my first computer when I was 4 and have been programming and building hardware ever since. I work in America now, I went to Cornell (oooh, fancy) and I am a consultant. What people said about the school system in Russia is true about Romania as well. You were bombarded with information and were constantly competing for the top spots in the class. Intelectuals were very cool and the girls were attracted to you if you were smart. For example, chess and math was a way to get girls (imagine my shock when I came to the U.S.). There were jocks too, and girls liked them as well, but my point is Intelectuals were respected and encouraged. And by the way, in response to an earlier post, "olympics" are actually "olympiads" and you have them all over the world silly, such as the mathematics olympiad which the Bulgarians just won, I believe. This might help make good programmers and hackers, but also as other people said the "best in the world" claims are ridiculous. Best at what? And since when do countries compete against each other at hacking? That being said, one of the most amazing guys I've ever seen is Romanian. I saw this dude stomping out viruses realtime in DOS using the debug program. He works for Microsoft now. In Soviet Russia... Microsoft hacks you!
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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