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Russia Jails Hacker For Spilling Top Government Officials' Secrets (reuters.com)
A Russian court sentenced a prominent hacker to two years in jail on Thursday after a secret trial which heard how he had accessed and leaked the email accounts of top government officials, Russian news agencies reported. From a report: The court found Vladimir Anikeyev, named as head of a famous hacking collective called Shaltai Boltai (Humpty Dumpty), guilty of illegally accessing computer data in collusion with a criminal group. The TASS news agency said he was accused of breaking into the email account of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman as well as the account of an official in the presidential administration among many others.
If he had been part of an 'opposition party', he'd also have been charged with embezzlement, given 10 years in jail, and forbidden from running for office, ever. That seems to be standard operating practice in Russia lately.
I thought it was Russia hacking the US, Now you're telling me Russia is hacking Russia?
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Don't forget there's also the Russian opposition party early retirement plan: get shot on the footsteps of the Kremlin.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
You also have to watch out for people with umbrellas and should stay away from drinking tea.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Obviously, this hacker should escape from Russia to the US, and then we can trade Snowden for him in a swap.
Right?
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In Soviet Russia, irony laughs at you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No. Leaking MY secrets is bad, leaking OTHERS' secrets is good (for me). Each government has laws that benefit itself at the expense of others...nothing surprising in that.
And don't forget about Smurfication.
One is either very brave, very naive, or suicidal to run against, or even speak up against Putin. He's pure liquid KGB. Russia is a democracy in name only.
Table-ized A.I.
If he was a Democrat party member who was going to reveal information, he'd just get a few bullets in the back and have it claimed to be a "robbery" where nothing was taken...
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In the US, truly good hackers are generally given limited sentences as long as they promise to work for the government and not break the law in the future. I'm guessing that Russia has a similar policy.
A 2 year sentence for that type of crime is relatively light. In the US, the minimum sentence is 5 years _per_ criminal act (which does a good job of explaining the Aaron Schwartz suicide.) As with government employment, I'm guessing Russia would have similar sentencing.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Besides, the jail is located at a Black Sea resort, it's more like a vacation.
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If he had been an American in America and did that to an American government, he would have got a life sentence or worse a death sentence, so what the fuck is your point. Fuck the stupid what ifs, fucking hell, the dude only got 2 years.
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You mean, "hacking in the U.S." equals "ten years in jail"? Exactly so.
He may or may not be part of any opposition party but when he broke into Medvedev's email the information that came out provided the opposition with enough evidence to start a large investigation (which ended up posted as a video) into corruption that made Medvedev a billionaire.
Currently Navalny is in jail for 25 days from the 12th of June (8 days after his birthday) until the 7th of July for being popular enough that people listened to him and came out to protest corruption on the 12th of June across Russia.
Navalny and his team put together 'He is not a Dimon for you' (with English subtitles)
You can't handle the truth.
My point, as you have fucking confirmed, is that he got only two years. Other guys in Russia have gotten worse for being in an opposition party. That's paradoxical with the situation in the U.S., where hackers get extremely (some would say stupidly) heavy sentences, but being in the opposition party is essentially a non-issue. We have been discussing this in the thread here.