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> I doubt they have the resources to find hackers. The Los Zetas cartel, being the second largest cartel in Mexico, probably has revenues of well over a billio
by humbledrone 15y ago
> I doubt they have the resources to find hackers.
The Los Zetas cartel, being the second largest cartel in Mexico, probably has revenues of well over a billion dollars per year. (It's estimated that the overall earnings of all Mexican drug smugglers is $13-40 billion.)
I'm pretty sure that's enough money to hire a hacker or two.
- TheEzEzz 15y agoYou need more than money if you're buying something illegally. You also need a certain amount of sophistication to know you're getting what you want.
- humbledrone 15y agoIn this case, I'm pretty sure that money is enough. It's not like the cartel needs to know anything about hacking or how to choose good hackers. All they have to do is tie the monetary reward to the result they want (track down the Anonymous member who said this), and somebody will figure it out, through hacking or other means. As an aside, I don't know of any billion-dollar industry that doesn't have a fairly high level of sophistication. I don't see why the cartels should be any different.
- xtracto 15y agoThe sad thing is that they do not need to hire hackers. They have been kidnapping Engineering students (electronic or software) and forcing them to work for them with the "plata o plomo" approach. Moreover, it is known that cartels have connections in every government agency, such as the CISEN (Mexico's national security agency), Policía Federal Ministerial (Mexico's FBI). That's one of the reasons why a lot of "protected witnesses" or people who report crimes are murdered, because there is always someone inside these agencies.