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I watched the downfall and eventual jailing of someone who had a great job, career, and family after he started getting involved in cybercrime. As far as I can
by Aurornis 5mo ago
I watched the downfall and eventual jailing of someone who had a great job, career, and family after he started getting involved in cybercrime.
As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.
He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect. I think he believed his intellectual superiority combined with the stupidity of others so much that eventually he couldn’t imagine anyone catching him.
- redsocksfan45 5mo ago[dead]
- kspacewalk2 5mo ago>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process. I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.
- kirubakaran 5mo agoLet's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.
- quantummagic 5mo ago[flagged]
- kirubakaran 5mo ago[flagged]
- hermannj314 5mo agoI don't think a person saying Eastern European are observed doing something more than expected is inherently racist. It is a claim he either does or doesn't have evidence for. If he made the claim with insufficient evidence or made the claim in contradiction of the evidence, then it becomes racist, but I don't think making the observation and doing the calculation is the racist part. It is a simple chi-squared goodness-of-fit test.
- Swizec 5mo agoI’m eastern-ish european, is it even racist to say that tech talent in the region is through the roof but for various accidents of history, the best opportunities available to talented people are in cybercrime (both sides)? Not everyone has a hundred tech unicorns in their back yard. I think my country (Slovenia) produced one in its entire history so far and even that was mostly in the US
- JCTheDenthog 5mo agoYour comment assumes, a priori, that the stereotypes are in fact "unfair". I don't know enough about cybercrime rates per capita amongst Eastern Europeans vs. other populations to be able to say if it is actually an unfair stereotype, but it is an indisputable fact (supported by virtually every jurisdiction that tracks crime rates by things like national origin, ethnicity, etc.) that there are population level differences in crime rates.
- kspacewalk2 5mo agoNow I'm confused whether my observing patterns of behaviour and recurring beliefs clustered among people from my own part of the world are in fact racism or bigotry. Am I being indecent? Am I self-hating? Are others tolerhating? I only wish some white night would unambiguously tut-tut me or else give me a pass.
- antonvs 5mo agoYou're perhaps being parochial. If you lived in some other part of the world, are you sure you wouldn't observe something similar? I've lived in four countries on three continents, from third world to first world, and human behavior is pretty constant across all of them.
- jazz9k 5mo agoIQ tests are basically the ability to spot patterns. It really tells you something about US culture, when spotting patterns is now seen as racist or bigoted. Patterns also can save your life. They are a built-in defense mechanism and many women are taught to ignore them.
- kspacewalk2 5mo agoRe-read my comment as it is written and note that my observation does not generalize.
- gessha 5mo agoGeneralization is a tool, not something inherently bad or evil.
- coldtea 5mo agoGeneralizing doesn't mean everybody or even most in the group. It means it's a common behavior in the group relative to other groups.
- meindnoch 5mo ago[flagged]
- elmomle 5mo agoIf communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America?
- locknitpicker 5mo ago> If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America? By communism I don't think people talk about the philosophical basis of an idealized society, but the totalitarian regime that oppresses a society and keeps the working class constantly in survival mode under the risk of losing it all.
- RRWagner 5mo ago[flagged]
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- AngryData 5mo agoThen they should be rallying against totalitarianism and authoritarian policies, not broad and vague ideas of "communism" that most people cant agree on the definition of. All it does is let people and politicians weasel around them using authoritarian policies because they aren't communist.
- locknitpicker 5mo ago> Then they should be rallying against totalitarianism and authoritarian policies, not broad and vague ideas of "communism" that most people cant agree on the definition of. You're nitpicking on semantics. Communism is the poster child of totalitarian regimes that oppress their citizens to extreme levels. When you talk about communism, people think of gulags, forced labor, murdering political opponents,and even force-admittong rivals to psychiatric hospitals.
- KellyCriterion 5mo agosounds like Markus Braun & Jan Marsalek / Wirecard, the fraudsters :-D
- cm2012 5mo agoSounds like Breaking Bad
- pbgcp2026 5mo ago[flagged]
- Rp8yXmdmr 5mo ago> he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others [...] He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect. It seems to be common occurrence. I still can't get over that one hacker who dumped stolen data on forum, to sell it/prove his capabilities, in form of tar.gz archive, that accidentally included his entire home directory