Admit Attack Security experts weren't surprised about that, either. Here hacking is a good job, one of the few good jobs left. Russian crackers have been at the center of some notorious computer crime cases. Levin accomplished this with a personal computer and a dial-up connection to the Internet. More recently, in October 2000, Microsoft discovered that its network had been breached, admitted that the crackers had probably had a good look at software projects under development, and said that the trail led back to an address in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Russian crackers do amazing things with very limited computing power.
And they have excellent programming skills, which many of the so-called crackers in the U.S. do not possess. These Russian guys aren't just downloading tools and running them without knowing what they are doing. They know exactly what they are doing. But he feels that there is more approval for Russia's crackers throughout Russia than there is elsewhere. When I was in school, in the 1980s, we were encouraged to hack American software.