His free days numbered. If he does not get caught while traveling outside, some enthusiastic and inventive kgb operatives or local policemen or mobsters will pa

His free days numbered. If he does not get caught while traveling outside, some enthusiastic and inventive kgb operatives or local policemen or mobsters will pack him and travel to some neighboring to collect the bounty and then maybe ask for political asylum in Spain or somewhere close to a beach. This, however, is far more interesting. > Authorities were able to identify that Kulkov had an iCloud account tied to the address nordexin@icloud.com, and upon subpoenaing that found passport photos of Kulkov, and well as more photos of his family and pricey cars. Isn’t iCloud data E2EE? Or did they subpoena it before E2EE became available for iCloud? And catching cybercriminals is nice and all, but why not shift a little bit of blame on banking and card systems? My bank phased out virtual credit card numbers, that were be restricted to one seller and limited in transaction amount. And I rarely encountered a US merchant using 3D secure transaction, while in Europe many did. Maybe it just my experience though. Somewhat unrelated, but my bank for two 2FA offers only SMS code, I still see cards with magnetic stripes, which should've been obsolete a decade ago, chase still has some weird password requirements that forces you to simplify it, instead of testing it for entropy and plaid still wants your password to connect your bank account to a service. The fin industry is not security minded, so that few man in russia can cause so much damage.