Convicted Cybercriminal Turns to Politics
It is uncanny how closely cybercrime has paralleled business in free markets: there is specialization of labor, markets for exchanging goods and services, brokers acting as middle men and now we have what may be the start of a revolving door between cybercrime and politics.
The Security Fix is reporting Dmitri Ivanovich Golubov, convicted of trafficing stolen credit card information captured with malware, has started the "Internet Party of Ukraine." He is doing this, not for himself of course, but for the good of the Ukrainian people:
Ironically, Golubov and the Internet Party are running on a platform of rooting out public corruption and reducing bureaucracy. Other parts of its platform include the "computerization of the entire country," "free computer courses and foreign languages at the expense of the budget," "the creation of offshore zones in certain regions of Ukraine," and the organization of Ukraine as a "tax free paradise with the aim to attract money from all over the world."
It's not hard to imagine how stringent computer crime laws could be if people like this gained any real power.
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