Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the "Glupteba" botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network. The ad giant said Glupteba had infected one million compromised devices across the globe, where it …
The short-term gains from lying are usually paid back with interest, as the world catches on to said lies. Same is true for every human interaction in this world: being trustworthy is better for business than being a lying scumbag and cheater.
Case in point is the current cost of Russian foreign policy. They thought that lying about their strategies and goals in Ukraine might pay off internationally and internally. Now they need to enforce a draft and Orwellian speech policies to keep up their extension of diplomacy with other means.
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