Do you believe that hackers who played a part in exchanging stolen credit card details stolen by password-grabbing spyware can be rehabilitated into society?
What kind of career path do you think they should follow? Computer security consultant? Penetration tester? Rat catcher? Politician?
Meet Dmitry Golubov, leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine (IPU).
The party held its first official congress on March 1st (you can see some photographs of the event here), where Golubov no doubt reaffirmed his party’s platform of rooting out public corruption, returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine and “electronic government against bureaucracy”.
What Golubov may not have talked about in his address to a packed conference room was that in July 2005 he was arrested in Odessa, and accused of being…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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