I'm not an expert but if the accounts that were created did check for the user's identity papers beforehand, would the mixing of the cryptocurrency be illegal in itself? How would the platform know the origin of the money?
For the last month or so archive.is is not working for me, is it maybe related to this? Btw I always assumed owner is from Russia because he or they were so secretive about everything except occasional blog post or occasional Q&A and Russians are usually obsessed by their web pet projects.
For real someone needs to make legit business of archiving the web where you would have timestamped hashes of your archived web pages and "unlimited" storage for archiving ofc only if you pay for the "unlimited" storage.
Russia in particular is turning the blind eye on en masse cyber crime that is originating from Russia. Russian hackers in the last two decades stole millions of credit cards from US and EU and hacked numerous banks and still the biggest Russian cyber criminals are at large in Russia. Just look at the FBI's top 10 wanted for cyber crime.
RU cybercriminals pay bribes to RU law enforcement to stay out of trouble as well as bend the knee and work for GRU/KBG when called upon for various requests by them.
then there is also the unspoken rule of "dont shit where you eat" aka RU/CIS based ransomware operators and hackers cant attack any companies in the CIS region.
I think you're misreading the situation. As far as I can tell, Russia has every reason to want to continue engaging in heavy cyber-criminal activities. I don't think this is the virtuous Kremlin turning a blind eye. This is a classic case of deception. Look at my left hand, so you don't see what my right is doing.
They see it as asymmetrical warfare, I know that; but if US would let US cyber criminals steal millions of Russian and Chinese credit cards or some other PII, I would perceive that as distasteful and not as a form of counterintelligence.
Considering that America has allowed hundreds of billions of dollars of money belonging to individuals in Russia to be stolen, I do not see the validity of your argument.
It was caused by unprovoked and illegal invasion of neighbouring country, that's tit for tat. They also seized assets of Nazi Germany when Hitler decided to go full yolo.
These are just words, excuses that hide the fact that they illegally stole funds that did not belong to them.
Can I read more about the seizure of German bank accounts? As far as I know, they (USA) continued to sponsor Germany until 1944. (through various branches.)
Some Swiss banks serviced Nazi accounts until 2020 and did not see any problems in this.
A tit for tat would have been Iraq had seized American assets in response to the US invasion and the theft of Iraq's gold assets.
Remind me, when did Russia invade the USA or the EU?)
At this point it would be better to start building and working on new web video hosting platform than to cry over feature that is most likely never coming back.
I assume you wouldn't put "Our target users are people who started swearing at us when we asked for enough money to pay for a single 15TB database" in your pitch deck.
I had similar idea of changing my PC's brightness according to the time of the day. It probably could've been implemented pretty easily using Windows API and some little hacking.
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