Recently 60 Minutes did a coverage of cybergangs that threaten the lives of innocent Americans. These hackers are young kids and men living in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. In their home countries they are celebrated as heroes. They even dare to show their faces on the internet.
Then hacker hunter Leslie Stahl shows a picture of a Russian master hacker who calls himself Tempest. He works for some organization and hacks into banks and steals money from Americans.
In the picture you can see some innocent Finnish school kids. They took the picture some 5 years ago in front of their school in Taivalkoski and posted it on the internet
I don't know if CBS even knows about their crew up yet. This was only discovered yesterday, and it's been all over the news today.
gasteropod wrote:Couldn't the Finnish kids have moved to Russia?
Anything is possible. But really unlikely as hell. Those are really just random kids whose picture somehow ended up to a russian server.
bradavon wrote:And the screw up is?
Maybe the connection wasn't clear. The picture he shows in 60 Minutes is that picture of those finnish school kids (who even wear Finnish clothes, and are standing in front of a Finnish school)
Some more info. The boys originally posted that pic where they appear as skinheads in 2003, and it became quite famous in the Finnish internet circle, often used in humoristic or parody context by other people (including dozens of photoshop variations). Apparently the boys were quite pissed about that.
Later the boys didn't move to Russia and turn into master hackers. No, they grew hair and became ordinary citizens after they passed the painful age of 14.
A photoshopped version (which was shown in 60 Minutes) of that pic was used in some Russian internet magazine called Cybermafia and possibly on some other Russian websites. Apparently this is where Leslie Stahl found his "mastercriminals".
