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Russians already consider the leaked Panama documents a Western "doxx." The Panama leak, if you recall, showed that one of Putin's friends, a humble musician otherwise, was holding accounts worth $2bn. Western media, and opposition media in Russia, ran the story for weeks as proof of Putin's corruption.

Kremlin predictably called it a Western hoax, and an act of cyber war. I wouldn't be surprised if they ~actually~ viewed it as such. If that's the case, the DNC leak might well have been motivated, in part, as their retaliatory strike.

Who says the government is missing out? Russian economy as a whole might be missing out, because qualified labor is leaving, but the state probably gets their pick of top graduates. Who do you think runs Kremlin's hacking, spying, and bot programmes? I imagine it's not the straight C students. Same goes for critical industries like defense and o&g.

Articles and the comments they spawn are a bit weird, honestly. Let's talk about face recognition tech in Russia, and how creepy it makes them.

Meanwhile it's not creepy at all that "Half of American Adults Are in Police Facial-Recognition Databases":

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/half-o...