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Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country's oversea accounts (hackers tried to steal $1 billion, but a typo stopped them). Zoha was apparently kidnapped this Wednesday after a jeep pulled over in front of his rickshaw. The friend that was with him was released hours later unharmed. When trying to contact police, family members were re-routed between police stations, and eventually gave up, contacting the media.
Many of us in the west will instinctively think of this as a developing world scenario but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?
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Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
You would think that a security researcher would travel in a more secure way than by rickshaw.
Has to be the largest single heist attempt ever, though perhaps pales to the systemic pillaging that Kaspersky mentioned last year. ... and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling keys.
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Corruption is the misguided belief of the people in power that they are going to live forever. Organized resistance with sniper rifles is the way to re-educate them of the realities of this world. Oh wait, the kidnappers were the security officials.
I think they're Hindu in Banlgadesh... but go ahead...spew your hate, a-hole
To be honest, it's a third-world country... what did you expect
No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
You're pretty fucking dumb, aren't you ?.....peasant.
So they get you train your H1B replacement. Then they start sending your pay cheque to India. Knock over the bank in India to get the money back. Profit.
He was in on it?
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Holly fucking shit.... when is the movie coming out?
No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
Way wrong. Pakistan and India were created at the same time in 1947. East Bangladesh became independent from the rest of Pakistan in 1971 after a nasty genocide and war, supported by India.
It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
Welcome to Poverty 101. Poor people aren't worth much. This means among other things, that anything more than "minimal regulation" kills people through starvation. You can complain about the lower regulations of Bangladesh, but a serious attempt to implement developed world regulation on Bangladesh would destroy the country's economy and many of its people.
And once again, I see an idiot ignoring labor competition. If you're competing with workers who can do your job for a fraction of the cost, you will see a decline in wages whether someone tries to "force" you or not.
Yes we were holding your 100's of millions that were stolen but, it's not our responsibility
Idiot yourself.
In the first case, you're simply reiterating what I already said.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
And you are likely a trump supporter and therefore a nazi.
> Implying Hitler did anything wrong.
Pakistan didn't split off from India. It never was part of India and actually came into being the day before India did. Nor was it "two provinces", but parts of several provinces (Baluchistan, Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, Northwest Frontier) and a number of "princely states". Nor did East Pakistan just "become" Bangladesh. It took a quarter century and winning a significant civil war.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
And you need to work on your perception. I'll just note that like many important real world things, pretending labor competition doesn't exist, doesn't actually make it go away.
This AC could get a job at an IMAX theatre -- the projection is strong in this one.
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Comparative advantage, and economic globalization. Google them.
And Jevons paradox - which explains why human labor is desired more than ever, due to its increased productivity.
Hitler was far closer to Sanders than Trump. They may sound alike, but Trump is not a fascist.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I bet the researcher got some of that money.