Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Malware

Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by ChrisLomont on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:28PM (#24842038)

> What "public awareness" is going to help bring these people in from Russia when we show them our hand of "we know who you are and what you do"?

It lets other countries know we're looking for someone. For example, here [1] is the US indictment from 2015 for Russian national Aleksei Yurievich Burkov. This let other countries know we wanted him. He was arrested later that year in Israel, and held because he was indicted by an ally country. He was extradited to the US in early 2020, tried, and sentenced to a long prison term.

Care to explain how public awareness does not get people arrested? Even from Russia?

There are plenty of cases like this. I see very few arrests and extraditions followed by public indictments. Do some searching in the DOJ court cases.

I'm done here. You form a lot of opinions based on very little data, and seem uninterested in solid statistical evidence before making claims, which is what I care about. Unfounded opinions are not useful to me.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14431846/united-states-...

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by monocasa on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:49PM (#24842243)

Aleksei's indictment very clearly says it was filed under seal.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.326720...

That's why he went to such a US friendly country like Israel in the first place; he didn't know for sure there was an indictment filed for him.

We don't need to unseal indictments in order to coordinate with other countries' law enforcement. We have mechanisms for privately working with them without making public announcements.

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