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Spammers Bribe Russian Officials
hellkyng writes with a transcript of interesting chat logs in Krebs on Security. From the article: "Leaked online chats between the co-owners of the world's largest pharmacy spam operation reveal the extent to which illicit organizations in Russia purchase political protection, and bribe public officials into initiating or stalling law enforcement investigations."
Except the spammers are corporations. And the bribes are campaign contributions. And the public officials are, oh they're still public officials.
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DUH! Still though, worth having evidence. Maybe the higher-ups will scapegoat some people, and things might get marginally better. Who knows.
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Spammers Bribe Russian Officials
And polluters bribe Chinese officials and large companies bribe American lawmakers and logging companies bribe South American governments and ... well, this list would get ridiculously long if we kept it going. I would be willing to bet that the spammers that operate in the United States have to grease the wheels at their banks and who knows where else? Hell, in Mexico, the police basically make you bribe them on the spot whether you can take a hint or not. You could probably say "Spammers Bribe Officials" and no doubt it's universally true.
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In soviet russia...blah blah blah...
Leaked online chats between the co-owners of the world's largest pharmacy spam operation reveal the extent to which officials in Russia sell political protection, and control criminals by initiating or stalling law enforcement investigations.
There are two sides involved in these crimes. One answers to voters.
Interesting that the pharmacy guys write of charities as a conduit for pay-offs. In the US we have 'non-profits' that serve that same purpose. One day there will be a similar leak from the US involving pay-offs laundered through some non-profit hospital.
The people who run the business of government are motivated precisely by money, the same as everyone in the private sector. Puts a bit of a damper on the age-old claim that government works for you and me, doesn't it?
I thought this was how business was done in Russia. According to Misha Glenny, who knows as well as anyone, they always have to bribe the mafia and protection to actually get anything done as well.
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socialize healthcare in the worlds largest economy, The United States. With no need for a competitive alternative market for healthcare, pharmacy spam will die overnight.
now you might say "but athletic shoe spam will surely overtake the market after this" and yes, I can solve this problem as well.
Include with each pair of new athletic shoes a picture of the representative atheletes average home, as well as that of an employee of the shoe manufacturer.
now I know some worry that perhaps the markets would shift to peddling pornography in greater fervour then?
This is excellent! as we find now the market saturated with nudity and sexual content the likes of which Extremist religious terrorism could never triumph against.
Genitalia is relegated to being simply another mundane element of the human physiology, and we can return to doing more interesting things as a society like finding cool bozons and curing diseases and exploring space.
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We just happen to call it lobbying.
Not that it's any different than a bribe.
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Cuts out the various middlemen like lobbyists, think tanks, PACs, etc. and gets the money from the crooks directly to the crooked politicians. It's much more efficient, though it lacks the patina of the West's "legal" forms of influence peddling.
Not fundamentally much different than the Americans lobbying the Europeans here:
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Corruption in government. This certainly is news.
If people were serious about stopping cybercrime, they'd blackhole nations that couldn't control their cybercrime problem.
I bet that would solve a lot of issues real damn quick.
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I thought by now that anyone with a clue firewalled anything and everything from Russia with a vengeance. Honestly, what worthwhile network traffic comes from there? Its nothing but bot nets, spams, and Mob networks (RBN, anyone?).
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
the man on the street bribes cops and soldiers, they gotta eat too.
that spammers bribe them only means that the officials got wind of the spamming operation - or that they bought a house..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
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(note, you may need to RTFA).
In Russia it's called a bribe, in the U.S. it's called "lobbying".
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