• fullsquare@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

    “It is one of the paradoxes of modern Russia: on the one hand, these services are illegal and rely on leaked data, yet on the other, they are far more convenient for day-to-day police work than the multitude of official departmental databases,”

    gaben on piracy: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

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    4 months ago

    Funny how what is a black market underground economy in Russia because of the danger is “market research data” legally sold in the US.

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      4 months ago

      People are starting to realise that the biggest survilliance state in the world is the US.

      And they want you to think it’s China or Russia to deflect attention.