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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by hef19898 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @02:44AM (#3760361)
Sounds too much like Password: Swordfish 2.0 to me. Unfortunately I can't access the article right now. For me, one thin gis sure, the cartels aren't stupid. At least the leaders and the heads, that is. Don't judge the organization by the goons welding guns and that get killed. They are running a multi-billion dollar business, and I'm pretty sure that they know that forced labour only gets you so far in anything more important than packaging (even thats not sure, given the budget they have and mexican salaries). So I think they are rather hiring the best IT-guys they can get along with the best intel-guys they can get. These hackers may not be of the "don't be evil"-type, what after the cartels aren't in that kind of business neither.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by disusered on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @05:27AM (#3760702)
As a programmer based in Mexico that's had some contact with the underworld, this is correct. Greed is a powerful motivator.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by hef19898 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @03:05AM (#3760411)
I'm quite new to HN, so I have a question. Was anything wrong on my comment that I'm the only one to get down voted on this topic? I'm not going to bitch around due to that, don't get me wrong, I only want to understand why, tht's all. :-)
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by dagw on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @03:19AM (#3760446)
Random downvotes are a fact of life on HN, if for no other reason than the close proximity of the vote buttons (I know I've accidentally down-voted more than a couple of stories over the years). These things tend to correct themselves if you're patient and wait a few hours.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by hef19898 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @03:28AM (#3760466)
Ah, that could be a reason. Again, no offense taken, I just wondered. There is no other thing like randomness to add some salt to life!
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by Symmetry on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @10:23AM (#3761627)
Given how often it is that the first vote on a good comment is a downvote, I can't help but wonder if there are people who deliberately downvote good comments so their comments rise higher.
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Re:Mexican Drug Gangs Kidnap Computer Hackers and Programmers by dkersten on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @08:32AM (#3761115)
A lot of comments start off being downvoted for one reason or another and after a few hours end up being upvoted instead. Its nothing to worry about, seems pretty normal on HN and good comments rarely stay downvoted.
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