How a carding kingpin got caught
capitolhillseattle.com
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But they do not so, because the fraud cost is paid by merchants (fines, fraud buffer in fee %) and ultimately the consumers as higher prices. Fraud does not hurt Visa/MasterCard bottom line.
Q: How secure is the "forgot 3DS password" functionality on 3DS-enabled cards?
Still orders of magnitude safer than without.
A small price to pay for the freedom to operate an international criminal business with impunity.
> Seleznev likely suspected an atoll in the Maldives, a tropical South Asia nation that does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S
and
> Before he traveled, Seleznev used to search the PACER database for his own name and nicknames, to see if there were any arrests warrants.
I haven't been to Russia much since I left in 2006, but even back then there was some kind of contention in between Kremlin's desire to crack down on fake passports as part of attack on dissidents, and the boheme wanting to access fake or blue/diplomatic passports (and accompanying immunity.)
SITA and GDS providers are giving away flight data left and right — this is one of ways how US gets hold of people traveling to Cuba despite them flying through 3rd countries, and China books Uighurs who fly to Saudi Arabia or Turkey
For when some non-US national overflies US, or files a pre-flight form to US, many don't know that such forms are purely symbolic, US government already had hand on this data the moment the ticket was booked.
Also remember that when someone with your last name, first initial and DOB flies around.
Capitolhillseattle.com is a neighborhood blog, the 'Broadway Grill' is one of the diners in that neighborhood, and it was merely one of many businesses that got caught up in carding fraud. The scope of the article is much wider, shedding some light on credit card theft, dark markets for stolen cards, and the duel that goes on between the criminals and the authorities.
With a bit of a hint of Russian governmental corruption.
Wow, that's kind of a bombshell.
It strikes me as unsurprising that Russia would be willing to trade someone who was once a PR coup (but is now mostly irrelevant) for someone who is currently politically very connected. Snowden's asylum has always been on the sufferance of the Russian government.
Is it clearer if I say that Snowden's asylum was convenient for Russia, but they today derive no clear benefit from his presence and thus apparently tolerate him from lack of reason to disapprove?
It would be quite an accusation to imply the Russians use people as pawns like that, by the way. I hope it’s not that bad.
> absence of objection rather than genuine approval; toleration.
Of note is that this does not imply any suffering or burden. I understand that other people might personally choose to subscribe to different definitions of any given word.
As for the rest, I don't think it's at all difficult to believe the Russians would use people as pawns that way. Especially when someone the ruling autocracy likes (and has some obligation they care about to defend) is concerned.