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Re: Please do not take down the Sality botnet by icebraining on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @11:53AM (#3766828)
>"Skilled but under-emplored programmer in Russia" is like Bigfoot [also known as sasquatch] - everyone heard about him/her, but noone saw. It is a legend...

Well, Group-IB (a Russian computer security company) seems to disagree:

    In Russia the situation is additionally worsen by a great amount of 
    technical universities graduates and by unstable home economy
    situation as the result of which the mentioned specialists cannot
    find highly paid legal income. 
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Wgm5sdanNDgJ:...

I don't know where they get the data from, though.

But of course there are russians, americans, germans, brits, and other nations, which do quite some harm. I just do not think there is a legitimate way to define the winner.

Sure, it's still a prejudice, I was just pointing out it's not completely irrational.

Re: Please do not take down the Sality botnet by daemon13 on Thursday March 29, 2012 @02:52AM (#3770028)
True, but sometimes perceptions are becoming self-fullfilling profecies :-(