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‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
(www.theguardian.com)
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as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities
gaben on piracy: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,"
Nothing more Russian than police giving someone their database for a bribe.
And it's even more Russian that police then pays for convenient service to someone who's bribed enough policemen to assemble enough data.
It's a common banality to say that Russian culture is somehow deeply authoritarian, but actually it's suppressed anarcho-capitalism all around. LOL.
(And it makes perfect sense that Ukrainian special services are working the same way. Shouldn't have invaded such a similar country.)
Bellingcat is a CIA outlet.
Why do you say that?
Oh no!
How do you figure?