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Presumably the feds wouldn't say who they were and would pose as common criminals, because they wouldn't have any reason to suppose that the datacenter operator
by kryptiskt 5y ago
Presumably the feds wouldn't say who they were and would pose as common criminals, because they wouldn't have any reason to suppose that the datacenter operator would keep quiet if they were open about their identity.
- 542354234235 5y agoBut yours assumes that Russia doesn't do counter-intel and wouldn't be looking for exactly these kinds of infiltrations. If it is obvious to us that these things would be targets, I'm pretty sure it is obvious to Russian intelligence services.
- emc3 5y agoShady fly by night data hosting doing counter-intel, or better, Putin spending his precious rubles on running counter-intel ops for shady fly by night hosting companies, are both hilarious.
- pueblito 5y agoRussian govt has always held counter intel to be a top priority and they devote an enormous amount of resources towards it, so why is that hilarious?
- md_ 5y agoBellingcat appear to routinely buy data from Russian blackmarket data brokers.
- snypher 5y agoReplace 'buy' with 'receive' and 'Russian blackmarket data brokers' with 'intelligence assets' and you're correct.