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.

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Extraordinary rendition

[Enter the Shoggoth]

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?

Re:Extraordinary rendition

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that's the difference between the weaponized bureaucracy of the US and developing nations.

- both have a central government that breaks its own laws when it suits them
- both have punitive legal systems that destroy the lives of people in the lower classes regardless of guilt
- both have law enforcement that view citizens as fodder to beat, shoot and incarcerate with no oversight

- one shoots people it finds to be a problem, the other makes them disappear into a prison for decades

The US government is essentially a violent third world dictatorship with a hastily applied veneer of lawfulness and access to eye-watering amounts of resources and manpower.