How cam'st thou in this pickle? - SHakespeare, The Tempest
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Russian spy worked at Microsoft
ONE OF THE RUSSIAN SPIES recently uncovered in the farcical cold war throwback was for a time a Microsoft employee.
According to the Washington Post, Alexey Karetnikov was working at the Microsoft campus outside Seattle, Washington. He is the 12th person to have his collar felt on allegations of spying but the US authorities could only charge him with immigration violations. As a result, he was merely deported back to Russia.
A Microsoft spokesman, Lou Gellos, confirmed Karetnikov had a job as a software tester at the company for nine months.
"He was just in the early stages; [he] had just set up shop," a US federal officer told the Post.
The alleged Russian sleeper agents, who apparently only gathered data they could've found down the back of the Internet, are now being debriefed by Russian intelligence in Moscow.
Was Karetnikov's job a cover or was he also selling the Vole's top secrets back to the motherland? We can only hope so, and that the Russians spend a lot of time learning to code spying software as badly as the Vole codes its operating systems and applications. If so, that should set their spook shop back by decades.
However, back in 2005 Microsoft had its source code and internal network breached by Russian hackers, though those were likely commercial criminals just in it for the money.
But, if Karetnikov was after stealing source code, Microsoft beat him to it. Yesterday the Vole announced it will sell access to some of its source code to Russia under a Government Security Programme.
We seem to recall Lenin saying something about capitalists and rope, but since it's Microsoft, after all, we can only hope the Russians take all they can get. µ
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Is there a possibility the secret of the Blue Screen has been lost to the evil powers in Russia? Will it be unleashed on us as a "Red Screen of death"?
Terrible thought...
Since apparently all the people in the world who use Microsoft products are "software testers" for its buggy, insecure code, the "cover story" used by this alleged spy is probably pretty legit.
How did they catch him?
"Do you want to send another error report?"
"Nyet, I mean, No".
We learned in the meantime that the US was already talking about a spy-exchange before they arrested the russians, so basically what happened is that the US sent spies to russia, who got caught, and to get them back they arrested some russians (and probably random ones who weren't active spies since the soviet system ended) to exchange for them.
It all stinks to high heaven, and sure is change we can believe in.