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Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI (go.com)
Bookworm09 quotes a report from New York Times (paywalled, alternate source): A man identified as a Russian hacker suspected of pursuing targets in the United States has been arrested in the Czech Republic, the police announced Tuesday evening. The suspect was captured in a raid at a hotel in central Prague on Oct. 5, about 12 hours after the authorities heard that he was in the country, where he drove around in a luxury car with his girlfriend, according to the police. The man did not resist arrest, but he had medical problems and was briefly hospitalized, the police said in a statement. The FBI said in a statement that the man was "suspected of conducting criminal activities targeting U.S. interests. As cybercrime can originate anywhere in the world, international cooperation is crucial to successfully defeat cyber adversaries." ABC News reports: "Prague's Municipal Court will now have to decide on his extradition to the United States, with Justice Minister Robert Pelikan having the final say. Russian officials, however, are demanding that the suspect be handed over to them. Spokeswoman Marketa Puci said the court ruled on Oct. 12 that the man will remain in detention until the extradition hearing. No date has yet been set. U.S. authorities have two months to deliver to their Czech counterparts all of the documents necessary for the Czech authorities to decide on the extradition request."
Blame anybody you want, it still doesn't remove the DNC taint that has been exposed.
Expect him to be double tapped in the head in an inexplicable accidental-suicide-robbery.
Obviously this validates the content of the e-mail as real, indicating multiple violations of federal and state laws by the senders, recipients and those discussed in the emails. Otherwise, there'd be no point in prosecuting this person, much less releasing this information on the day of the final presidential debate.
...overseas. Your country is demonstrating to other regimes that it is ok to abduct people in a 3rd country.
Seriously guys, it looks really pathetic when the Czech police arrest some one and US law enforcers make the public statements. The only comment from Czech authorities, baa, baa, baa (Czech dudes watch out for the gum boots, http://www.urbandictionary.com...). The Czech police did the arresting, than they should make the public statements and the FBI should shut the fuck up, otherwise it looks really bad, like baa, baa, bad and right now thanks to the purposeful immigrant crisis Europeans are pretty pissed off with the US government and NATO and you do not want to be so diplomatically arrogant and clumsy.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
i said the same think when i complained there were illegal aliens with Brittish accents managing the national parks Yosemite and Sequoia.
Prosecute who for what exactly?
Because all of the posts so far are about the Clinton email/DNC hacks, and because the summary is obviously trying to cash in on current political events to make this a big story by excluding this, here is a quote FTFA:
Fucking shills. We already know the many countless crimes of the Clinton Mafia. Scumbags that sold out to spread their propaganda for them are some of the lowest forms of humanity in existence.
Yes Vladimir, I hate those fucking shills too. They keep messing up our misdirection. My boss will not be happy.
Are we all meeting up for Borscht later?
Sorry I'm out of "attaboy" points. Be quite sure the thugs will kill you with moderator points
It's more than that. They're in banks and our TV shows. These illegals with British accents just keep coming into the US. Do you honestly believe they got a green card so fast? Bahahaha.
When the Russian hacker was arrested, he donned a pair of goggles and said "Safety is number one priority."
Reality check.
1) As noted at the end of the article, this guy is wanted for hacks that have nothing to do with government email.
2) Illegally obtained evidence can't be used in court.
For someone who endlessly philosophizes on Slashdot, you're ability to read accurately or construct an actual argument are shit.
It is trivial to get a green card as a manager. 7 months from entering the country tops if your immi lawyers are worth their salt.
i love how republicans accuse obama and the democrats of being 'weak' and pussies when it comes to this stuff, however obama shutdown assange internet and took out this presumed guccifer fellow, not to mention bin laden, (something bush didn't do in 8 years) - moral of the story, don't fuck with hillary...
Just to nitpick, if you actually say "borscht" to a Russian, they wouldn't understand you immediately. You see, that particular Cyrillic letter at sounds as "sht" only in Bulgarian. Ukrainians pronounce it as "shch", which would sort of work in Russian, as it is the same in some dialects. In Russian proper that letter sounds like a very soft (Russian is more or less the softest of all Slavic languages) sh, sort of like in the word "sheep", but still softer. Imagine the word "sheep" as said by a very camp gay, that "sh" would sound close.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I wonder if the czech are prepering for the kind of reprisals they'll surely receive after this guy is extradited? I know that russian programmers are ingenious and they are very patriotic, hating all the "imperialists". I think there will be no electricity anywhere in Bohemia after the backlash, trains won't run, ICU ventillators will stop, people will be trapped in elevators and the underground railway. Electronic media won't be able to broadcast or only send out hacked RussiaToday messages. It will be as if the country was hit by a low-orbit ion cannon. That's how capable russia's unofficial cyber-war battalion is.
Remember that the czech are not very resilient people, they never actually fought, not even in WWI or WW2. By the time the front line would have reached them, they had always put their hands up, waving the white flag. The same they did in 1968 when tanks rolled in. That kind of unhardened, atheist, rootless liberal country is not well prepared for even a low-intensity conflict with russia, an empire of devoutly patriotic brutes who care not about any lives, their or others. The USA is using the czech and other central-eastern european nations as comfort women, but it will be Ivan, Sergey and Vladimir who does the real raping.
Not to mention all the little Trump-bots scuttling about parroting Kremlin foreign policy positions almost word-for-word...
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
...FBI arrests YOU!
Your second point is wrong, only if it is illegally obtained by the government.
Russian hackers do do other types of breaking into computers and black-hat hacking, you know-- malware, ransomware, zombiebots, credit-card skimming, identity theft, stealing email from people other than Podesta, spamming, DDOS for hire. They don't spend all their time hacking into the Clinton campaign.
This is just tyranny, and corruption at it's worst! Another citizen of freedom goes to the FBI guillotine! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
I trust Putin more than Clinton. Clinton is for Clinton and the global elite. Try again. Clinton is a traitor to America, and the American people.
Go read the wikipedia page on '5 eyes'. Germany is currently a rung or two down (9 or 14 eyes) but really wants in to that coveted 5 eyes 'inner circle' of spying.
While they may or may not be beholden to the US, they certainly have similiar interests in abusing the letter of the law over its spirit in order to 'protect and serve up' the public for law enforcement action.
"Just to nitpick, if you actually say "borscht" to a Russian, they wouldn't understand you immediately."
Among all of this slinging of Mud, you actually have something interesting to say. The German accent, as usually heard by Americans, is harsh and guttural, perhaps reflecting the accents of those many German Immigrants of a Century or more ago, and WWII Propaganda Films. The same may be said of the American concept of the Irish accent, which may have been common in the rural Irish Poor of eight score years back, but hasn't been commonly heard in Ireland for decades. This is deliberate. Back in the Thirties, there was an Irish National School Program to, as one wag put it, "To beat the Bog out of the Irish." (But in the US, March 14 is still celebrated as "Plastic Paddy Day". This has now even come to Ireland, where the Natives make fun of "Irish Americans".)
At one time, Dublin itself had six distinct accents. Nowadays, it's pretty much variants on D4, at least on RTE.
London had three distinct Accents once as well. RP, Estuary, and Cockney, reflecting Upper Middle Class, Lower Middle Class, and Working Class respectively. There was a fourth, "Mid-Atlantic", that was constructed by Hollywood, and taken up these days only by the utterly pretentious.
I once, during a long Owl Shift conversation with a girl from Darmstadt(?) . She had good Book English, but wasn't comfortable with any common English Accent. My friend Mike was born in East Berlin, but his English accent could hardly be called harsh, but rather crisp, as if he had learned English by listening to the BBC... which he had. (Mom used to joke that "RP", Received Pronunciation, was called that because people once listened to the BBC worldwide on their Receivers...) Whereas Nils, who was Danish, and came from a Fishing Village, had a very harsh natural accent. Perhaps developed so as to be heard over the Wind.
This Girl, what a voice... I asked her to pronounce some names judged ugly by American Standards: "Gudrun" wasn't "Good Run", but rather "Whroo-trun", Berta wasn't "Ber-ta", but rather "Pear-tha". Gertrude had three syllables- "Herr-tru-tuh". This was a German accent, (There are some 12 popular ones.), that I had never heard before, but, and this is a pretty big but... perhaps she, like me, has a speech impediment. (I took Remedial Speech for eight years, staring into a shaving mirror while torturing my tongue, and I still sound like I'm speaking with a mouth full of steel-cut oatmeal.)
"You see, that particular Cyrillic letter at sounds as "sht" only in Bulgarian."
I'm pretty sure that the harsh pronunciation of "Borscht" commonly heard in the US isn't from Bulgarian, but actually from the Lingua Franca Yiddish.
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(Pronounced Peart-huss?)