com a boiolização dos Estados Unidos que deixou de ser um estado inovador(decrescentes números de pessoal de engenharia, TI e exatas), para se tornar um estado burocrático(maioria dos políticos são advogados), os grandes hotspots de hackers se mudaram o Oriente. Hoje são chineses que espionam americanos.
O mais irônico, é que o grande paraíso "anárquico" da internet atualmente é a União Soviética, deixou de existir no "mundo real", mas ainda existe na Web, e os números de registros para domínios .SU fizeram foi aumentar no decorrer dos anos.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/19/us-russia-internet-idUSL1986480720070919
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/soviet-union-hackers-su/
O mais irônico, é que o grande paraíso "anárquico" da internet atualmente é a União Soviética, deixou de existir no "mundo real", mas ainda existe na Web, e os números de registros para domínios .SU fizeram foi aumentar no decorrer dos anos.
The .ru domain assigned to Russia after the Soviet Union fell apart is by far the most popular domain name for Russians but people continue to register the .su the domain name.
Figures released by the .su lobbyists show there are nearly 10,000 registered Web sites with the domain name and around 1,500 new ones have been added this year.
ICANN, or Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, say it is tackling the .su name as part of its drive to clean the internet of seemingly outdated domain names.
Countries' domain names are designated according to an international list called ISO 3166-1 which holds two letter codes for every nation.
As the Soviet Union is no longer on the list, the .su domain should be scrapped just as .cs died after Czechoslovakia split into the Czech republic and Slovakia in 1993, ICANN has said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/19/us-russia-internet-idUSL1986480720070919
The Soviet Union may be a thing of the past, but its domain isn’t. Think of it as a clubhouse for the new Russian kleptocracy.
.SU, assigned to the then-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1990, a year before its dissolution, is now a refuge for criminal hackers, according to the AP’s Raphael Satter.
The domain has “turned into a haven for hackers who've flocked to the defunct superpower's domain space to send spam and steal money.”
The migration to .SU began in 2011, when the officials overseeing Russia’s .RU domain tightened their rules.
Group-IB, a Russian Internet watchdog agency has found the number of malicious websites hosted on .SU doubled that year, then again in 2012, “surpassing even the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.” Perhaps the most well-known site is Exposed.su, which allegedly published credit records belonging to Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump, Beyonce, and others.
The is also a host for botnets.
Group-IB's Andrei Komarov told Satter, "In my opinion more than half of cybercriminals in Russia and former USSR use it."
Why even retain the domain? Patriotism. The Soviet Union is looked on by some as a paradise, a memory palace that still provides a refuge from the very kleptocracy whose parasites thrive on the body of .SU.
Sergei Ovcharenko, the director of .SU domain development at Moscow's Foundation for Internet Development, has aknowledged the weaknesses in Russian legislation that allows such activity, but insists that, just as .RU saw tighter regulations, so too will .SU.
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/soviet-union-hackers-su/