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The World's Top Cybercriminals
bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek profiles four individuals identified by law enforcement as the world's foremost online criminals. They're accused of crimes ranging from re-shipping rings to credit card theft and email fraud -- '...all are Russian. Strong technical universities, comparatively low incomes, and an unstable legal system make the former Soviet Union an ideal breeding ground for cyberscams. Also, tense political relations sometimes complicate efforts to obtain cooperation with local law enforcement.'"
I Malaysia is blocking my IP, I use an open proxy in, say, Vietnam, and access the "page creation" site from my house. Simple as that.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Governments today try to be everything to everybody and all they're good at is keeping the peace/killing people and breaking things. Don't believe me, just compare the quality of life in the Soviet Union in the 1980s to the United States. The more that government focuses on keeping the peace, arbitrating disputes, the more smoothly the economy can function.
You know why we're having an issue with the borders right now? Bush was so carried away with winning on domestic spending that he couldn't find the time or money to hire 10,000 new border patrol agents. Border security is a core function of the government. If you can't keep outsiders out of your country when they're not going through official channels, you have no real national security. Some defend him by saying we've not been attacked in years, so don't be paranoid, but I say, with that little security and that much distraction, how do you know we don't have a lot of sleeper cells in here now?
Limited government is advocated by us (classical) liberals/libertarians for a reason. The government can barely give two shits about the life, liberty and property of those outside the ruling class in the best of conditions. When it's trying to bribe people into loving it, then all bets are off and it frequently doesn't do its job or outright sides with the very people it ought to be pursuing (illegal immigrants, cybercriminals, etc.).
This is what is so fundamentally wrong with our "democracy." It has become a system of looting people people, not working for people. The government is more concerned about ensuring that a single mother has healthcare for her kids these days than making sure they don't get their heads blown off by thugs and corrupt cops (often they overlap these days). That's how far even the best have fallen. First principles like keeping the streets safe from vermin have given way to pandering to voters with shameless tactics.
In my opinion
I am very glad you have an opinion about a place you don't live and most liley have never even been to.
I lived in Leningrad (before it was St. Petersburg) and the local law enforcment cared more about rapists, murderers and drug dealers then people violating copyright law (much more common) or people with fraud scams with victims from other contries.
Go ask a beat cop in NYC (where I moved after Leningrad) which he would rather do, arrest the crack dealer who is peddling rock outside the school or track down the suburban kid who runs a botnet and steals credit card info.
Your attitude is typical of a middle class white american. You have no concept of things like poverty, REAL crime that does more then hurt a credit report and possibly cost $50, or what it is like to not have the world cater to you and your hedonistic needs.
The sense of entitlement in this country honestly makes me long for the days of living in poverty. At least poverty stricken people are grateful for the small things in life like indoor plumbing that works, heat in the winter, electricity that is not subject to random outages, and having a room over your head.
You make me sick.
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Then again, many americans do.
both believed that out of bed in the th4t comprise