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DarkSide's English is incredibly good for some supposed Russians. It even has the correct use of the apostrophe in "clients'". I know nothing, but my hunch is that this was written by a well-educated person who grew up in the US or Canada.
The lack of thick accents, hammer and sickle symbols, and hardbass leaves me seriously questioning the plausibility of this "Russian" theory.
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Just causing terror doesn't make it terrorism. Causing terror as a means to further some political (or religious) goal would make it terrorism.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. That's literally the Oxford dictionary definition. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+terrorism
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$500,000 salary? Let me know where these jobs are because I'd like to submit my resume.
A 500k isn't all that unusual in tech I feel like.. Like a senior engineer at a FANG is probably making that much or more all in. Entry level salary for tier one firms across finance and tech is probably around 250-300k. Not hard to get to 500k with some experience.
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Is this sarcastic? Because you’re a native Russian speaker and yet your English isn’t recognizably Russian…
Nope, it's not. I always try to polish my English as much as I can, but after more than 8 years living in US, I still occasionally get messages from co-workers saying like, "hey dude, not to be pedantic, but ..." If I were to write a long piece, you'd almost certainly notice that I'm not a native speaker. I'm subscribed to a few Telegram channels led by Russian speaking people and I always spot minor mistakes in thei…
I think a native English speaker would have written either "I observe a similar pattern" or "I observe similar patterns". Your choice of words in that sentence feels russian to me (although I may be influenced knowing what you told earlier).
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For me it was about making a statement. I had gotten into an argument with a professor on a discussion board. He used derogatory terms to refer to me, which pissed me off. I sent him a virus that was supposed to just damage files and delete some random files. It turns out it propagated onto their main network and crashed the entire universities network. Suddenly, you feel untouchable (even though the virus had gotten…
> It turns out it propagated onto their main network > the virus had gotten out of control, which I didn't mean it to do This isn't just a whoops, how do you "accidentally" create a virus that leaves the boundaries of the computer and traverses their network?
Save the malware there, then anybody on the network with access can run it.
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The fact that their coins were apparently easily stolen also debunks another favourite talking point of the crypto people that it secures your money from government access. Clearly, ways and means have been developed to do just that if necessary.
This is the most puzzling part of the story. These guys were evidently pretty skilled. I can see their servers being seized but I am struggling to figure out how they lost their currency. Did the Kremlin put a gun to their head and say “unlock the wallet”? This seems especially fishy.
You ask that like it seems implausible. To me, given what we know, it sounds light-handed for them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/russia-chech...
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Which is also why they need a $15-50 million dollar fine on top this
I'm curious about the potential legal basis for such a fine.
Once I had the fortune of seeing the three cups and a ball scam live, on the street. One guy does the trick, another encourages the victim, and a third one watches the crowd disguised as a random onlooker. If something makes the onlooker nervous, he will signal the others and they will grab their things and disappear in less seconds than your hand has fingers. This sudden quit seems similar, specially with the withdr…
How does the scam work ? You got me curious...
And if you notice the trick? Well, they out number you. You probably won't win in a fight either.