Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist (softpedia.com) 60
An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country's oversea accounts (hackers tried to steal $1 billion, but a typo stopped them). Zoha was apparently kidnapped this Wednesday after a jeep pulled over in front of his rickshaw. The friend that was with him was released hours later unharmed. When trying to contact police, family members were re-routed between police stations, and eventually gave up, contacting the media.
Extraordinary rendition (Score:4, Insightful)
Many of us in the west will instinctively think of this as a developing world scenario but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?
Re:Extraordinary rendition (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, that's the difference between the weaponized bureaucracy of the US and developing nations.
- both have a central government that breaks its own laws when it suits them
- both have punitive legal systems that destroy the lives of people in the lower classes regardless of guilt
- both have law enforcement that view citizens as fodder to beat, shoot and incarcerate with no oversight
- one shoots people it finds to be a problem, the other makes them disappear into a prison for decades
The US government is essentially a violent third world dictatorship with a hastily applied veneer of lawfulness and access to eye-watering amounts of resources and manpower.
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Except the President believes he has the right to, at his sole discretion, decide a given individual is bad, and can lawfully order that person to be apprehended, then removed from the US, and held without charges, a trial or any notice to anyone that it has occurred, indefinitely.
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How would you know if he's done this? He doesn't have to tell anyone it has happened.
This isn't some bizarre conspiracy, he has publicly come out and said he believe that he can do it legally.
It would take someone like another Snowden, willing to give up the rest of their life in exchange for disclosing secrets the US gov't wishes us to not know.
Re:Extraordinary rendition (Score:4, Informative)
Heading? we have been there for years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
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So you assert that he was assassinated rather than committed suicide? What evidence do you have to add to the investigation that was somehow missed?
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Please. We're far too civilized for this.
Why do you think we have that ridiculous amount of laws nobody could possibly heed? You go arrest him, I'll grab the book and find something we can tack to him that sticks.
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One wood chipper pass and then fed to chickens.
Untraceable.
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but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?
Very different. Security researchers in the developed world are never kidnapped from their rickshaws.
Not very secure (Score:2)
Re:Not very secure (Score:4, Informative)
You haven't been to India have you?
It was an auto-rickshaw, known elsewhere as a tuk-tuk.
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Oh. That's very different. The bamboo the passenger compartment is made of is bulletproof, right?
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Billion with a B (Score:2)
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Has to be the largest single heist attempt ever,
The Russian oligarchs have stolen billions from Gazprom and other parts of the country.
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But that was rich people doing it. Rich people don't steal.
Re:Filthy Muslim third world shithole (Score:5, Interesting)
No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
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Hitler was far closer to Sanders than Trump. They may sound alike, but Trump is not a fascist.
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No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.
West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh.
Way wrong. Pakistan and India were created [wikipedia.org] at the same time in 1947. East Bangladesh became independent from the rest of Pakistan in 1971 after a nasty genocide and war, supported by India.
It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.
Welcome to Poverty 101. Poor people aren't worth much. This means among other things, that anything more than "minimal regulation" kills people through starvation. You can complain about the lower regulations of Bangladesh, but a serious attempt to implement developed world regulation on Bangladesh would destroy the count
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Idiot yourself.
In the first case, you're simply reiterating what I already said.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
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Pakistan didn't split off from India. It never was part of India and actually came into being the day before India did. Nor was it "two provinces", but parts of several provinces (Baluchistan, Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, Northwest Frontier) and a number of "princely states". Nor did East Pakistan just "become" Bangladesh. It took a quarter century and winning a significant civil war.
In the second, you seem to be justify low wages and bad working conditions because it makes them competitive with a place that provides low wages and bad working conditions. It's called Bangladesh.
And you need to work on your perception. I'll just note
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This AC could get a job at an IMAX theatre -- the projection is strong in this one.
Truth (Score:1)
I can't be the only one thinking this (Score:2)