‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

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• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.)

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  • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bellingcat is a CIA outlet.

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    • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh no!

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    • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why do you say that?

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    • KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How do you figure?

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Funny how what is a black market underground economy in Russia because of the danger is “market research data” legally sold in the US.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People are starting to realise that the biggest survilliance state in the world is the US.

    And they want you to think it’s China or Russia to deflect attention.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s all three of them.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      US sucks but there are more cameras per person elsewhere, more restrictions elsewhere. I think they are sinister and depraved but likely just like the rest, not worst.

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    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it’s still actually the UK. Just in terms of cameras.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a question similar to legalization of sex work.

    I mean, selling data on someone is not cool. But what’s completely illegal, but in demand by everyone, becomes something completely unregulated in practice and still a huge market. While otherwise it could be at least partially constrained by some norms. Similarly sex work is very much not cool. But at least in some countries it gives smaller chance of being murdered to workers.

    So - I live in Russia, I’m not sure I like the way it happens here more. Especially when combined with slow encroachment of mandatory centralized services for everything connected to government, municipal services, utilities, documents. They want control like in China, but can’t be bothered with security at least like in China.

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good

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