Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

Post by MuffinFlavored » Mon, May 25, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

pocksuppet wrote: post #33

We should note these are not even slightly legitimate hosting companies, lest anyone worry too much about their non-KYC offshore servers. These aren't hosting companies that ask little, they are just directly front companies for Russian intelligence, owned by members of Russian intelligence, they don't do anything else, they don't provide hosting service to regular people even if you want it (I have tried). Unlike in…

Post by goobatrooba » Mon, May 25, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

locknitpicker wrote: post #60

thewebguyd wrote: post #21

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It's not easy to go legit, especially in today's job market, depending on where you live in the world also. The US is unique with its high salaries for tech work (on the lower end of those of high salaries is pure ops work like this though). If you're in a country where the average sysadmin salary is substantially lower (to pick on Eastern Europe for a minute, you're looking at the equivalent of ~$30-35k USD/year), i…

> to pick on Eastern Europe for a minute, you're looking at the equivalent of ~$30-35k USD/year This is a disingenuous claim. Not only are there software engineers in rich western European countries that in absolute terms earn less than that but also your east European software engineer still earns multiple times their country's average salary.

Post by KellyCriterion » Mon, May 25, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

KellyCriterion wrote: post #70

KellyCriterion wrote: post #39

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...because on HN, experiences which somehow contradict the perspective when salaries are highly varying across countries, esp. when someone decides to pick an explicit example, which, even if it shows the truth, is against the base-assumption of the reader of a comment. To put it somehow dimplomatic :-D

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Post by nubinetwork » Mon, May 25, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

Post by coldtea » Mon, May 25, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #28

kspacewalk2 wrote: post #26

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>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process. I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.

Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.