Re:Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
by viraptor on Sunday October 30, 2011 @06:56PM
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Doesn't it also mean that every person who has been extorted rather than is a part of the group will fear for their life? Doesn't that make them more likely to talk to law enforcement and tell everything they know in exchange for protection, knowing they can get killed if they're outed and are free?
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Re:Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
by 46Bit on Sunday October 30, 2011 @08:07PM
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Interesting if brutal way of looking at things. However, when you can't trust the Police, protection is something of a wooly construct.
Re:Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
by viraptor on Sunday October 30, 2011 @08:36PM
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I was thinking more in terms of get caught by neighbouring country's police and pray they're not paid either...
Re:Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
by drivingmenuts on Monday October 31, 2011 @10:16AM
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And just who do you talk to when the people out to kill you are the ones you'd normally talk to about this sort of thing?
Re:Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets
by viraptor on Monday October 31, 2011 @11:39AM
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Like responded to sibling. Run away, get caught, hope that border guards you find are not paid by the same people. Alternatively walk into the biggest place you can find crowded with enough police people that even the corrupted one wouldn't be sure they can act as they want and claim you've got information and need protection (of course not knowing the situation well, I'm not sure how reasonable the second way is)