uber-pessimist author of 'Reinventing Collapse', speaking on June 9th

more cheery stuff from Dmitry Orlov, this time in much greater depth than the "Collapse Gap" slides

I came across this a while back and have been looking for it again for a while. Good document on what happened in the former USSR after its society collapsed -- pretty funny too. A bit heavy-handed in its criticism of the US though (via Bruce Sterling)

one Russian spammer appears to be earning over $5M/year by hawking fake antivirus apps via spam to gullible victims

last Friday, but worth celebrating. on 26 September 1983, a little-known Russian military officer averted global nuclear war, by disobeying procedures and correctly identifying a missile-launch report as a false positive. phew!

MP3 search engine that finds mp3s for pretty much everything I can think of; I think it's mp3-blog-driven. still up and working several weeks after I heard about it, to my surprise. Russian-hosted, of course

looking at Gadi Evron's writeup of the Estonian "cyberwar" incident, he notes 'the Estonian CERT comes into focus a lot as their efforts ensured the attacks were dealt with as effectively as possible', and calls for an Irish equivalent

'Galushkevich was angry over his government's plans to move [a] statue, and launched the attack as a means of protesting. The fact that a single angry student was able to impact international relations between two countries is a startling development.'

incomprehensible spam. 'We can offer available for charter flights, aircraft An-26B, for transportation by air of day-old chicks. Our price from Europe to Russia from 10000 per one charter flight.' w -- t -- f

sounds like a pretty scummy situation, all told. Wonder if Russia will ever bust them?

kind of a moot point, since they seem to be operating just fine at another URL anyway

Joe Stewart suggests the anti-spam community needs strong lobbying to make defeating the flood of spam and malware from Russia, a bigger priority than the music industry's attack on allofmp3.com

These are fantastic

Vardan Kushnir, 'notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail', found dead from repeated blows to the head