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He learned Russian to infiltrate Russian hacker forums. That shows he's dedicated to learning.
by Thorrez 2y ago
He learned Russian to infiltrate Russian hacker forums. That shows he's dedicated to learning.
- throwaway2037 2y ago[L]earned Russian: Woah, is this really true? Russian is a very difficult language to learn if you are not from former USSR, nor a Slavic language speaker. (I was told that the grammar is very complex.) I tried to Google about it, but I could not find anything. Can you share some sources? I am curious to learn more!
- Thorrez 2y ago>Brian Krebs learned Russian so he could understand where it was coming from and why. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/brian-krebs-computer-security-spam-nation/19805743/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/brian-krebs-c... >Mr. Krebs — a former reporter at The Washington Post who taught himself to read Russian while jogging on his treadmill https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/technology/reporting-from-the-webs-underbelly.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/technology/reporting-from... >Krebs, who tells in first person his inquiries about this rivalry, even learned Russian and traveled to the Russian Federation to interview them in person and, along the way, gives us a portrait of how the mafias that use the Internet for their purposes act and organize themselves. https://www.securityartwork.es/2022/02/08/spam-nation-a-portrait-of-2014-cybercrime/ https://www.securityartwork.es/2022/02/08/spam-nation-a-port...
- throwaway2037 2y agoThank you for the follow-up -- very details. I misread your original comment. I thought you were talking about Edward Coristine.