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Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses.

They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet.

They cover their tracks using technology that is arcane to most people—VPNs, encrypted chat apps, onion routing, aliases in dark web forums.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So he was caught and told he was caught and then 6 days later they arrested him. During the intervening time he was free to go and buy another laptop.

The idiot reckoned that because of "military law" he could go AWOL to not get arrested, yet when he was told that he had been caught, he did nothing. Intellectual juggernaut this guy

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cops have a saying, "We don't catch the smart ones." It is self selection, a lot of it.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That saying started with the recruitment process, that it also applies to the criminals is just a natural consequence.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

It's kind of concerning actually that that's what the military can produce. Someone with the self preservation instincts of the depressed lemming.