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    PhilipTheBucketA to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

    Russian techie flees Russia following FSB spyware plot

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    Russian techie flees Russia following FSB spyware plot

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    PhilipTheBucketA to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago
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    Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies
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      Hard to imagine that they so low skilled. If FSB really want to install a backdoor, it will be so low-level that more of a hard work will be required to detect it.

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        One of the hallmarks of a kleptocracy is that almost everyone is pretty bad at their job because no one cares. Remember when FSB agents bought copies of “The Sims,” instead of sim cards, to use to frame people as agents of Ukraine?

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          I’m too dense to tell, are you joking? There’s no way they’re that dumb?

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            https://www.vice.com/en/article/russia-sims-3/

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      i wonder how this person and snowden’s employability fares in their new home countries.

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        Given their niche tech skills, they should probably be ok.

        Computer security is difficult, citation needed

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          even if you don’t speak the language nor have any professional relations inside the country?

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            Last I checked computers talk in English /s

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              mine’s bilingual. lol

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