Russia throws founder of infosec biz Group-IB in the clink for treason A Russian court has sentenced Ilya Sachkov, the founder of security research house Group-IB, to 14 years in a maximum-security prison after finding the executive guilty of high treason. Sachkov, who has been in detention since his arrest in September 2021, was also fined 500,000 rubles (about $5,550). His trial was held behind …
In the real world political school, there are lessons to be learned from this:
1/ Do not collaborate with the FBI or Europol, if you are not in North-America or European soil. Outside USA or Europe, FBI/Europol only have its name and reputation, but zero power
2/ Do not mess with local military operations, sending their information abroad. Those people are paid to kill people. And in this case, they can do so legally
3/ Some heads are too expensive to be taken
Not sure why you are being downvoted so much - there seems to be a lot of govbots who want the gentle and loving jackboot of Big Brother on their necks.
I think that even with in North Armerica and Europe there is a lot of good reason not to collaborate with the FBI or Europol. They seems to have blotted their copybooks of late, e.g. "accidently" wiretapping hundreds of thousands of US citizens.
I wouldn’t pay too much attention to the background radiation of internet discourse allegedly made by a single human
Oh noes a comment has lots of up/down votes, what does it mean?? It means absolutely fuck all, it just means maybe some people clicked a button or maybe some software did it, we will never know.
Astroturfing is a very real and very active phenomenon that is happening all around us. Spotting it is tricky.
When 2 buildings collapse symmetrically and at free fall speed breaking all known fundamental laws of physics, you know, you just fucking know, that most people are braindead idiots and its not worth getting involved.
Russian mafia/gov, US mafia/gov, ?/?
Whistle blowers, people fighting organized corruption - are fools - we appreciate them, but fools none the less for not knowing what will happen to them.
Better to become a batman, or just hide than be a fool and lose your freedom/life.
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