Comments on: “Electronic Heroin” an analysis of Chinese juvenile cybercrime http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/electronic-heroin-an-analysis-of-chinese-juvenile-cybercrime/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:28:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Teri Bidwell http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/electronic-heroin-an-analysis-of-chinese-juvenile-cybercrime/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 Teri Bidwell Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:56:02 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=556#comment-1398 I can think of another characteristic that was left out of this article. The kids I've run into in the course of my studies that engage in cybercrime tend to pursue it because of economic reasons. In rural areas, it's the next best money-making venture after gold farming, because salaries in rural villages are so suppressed. In urban areas, I have heard some of these kids refer to themselves as living outside society, without culture, generally meaning that they are living off the books, with no identity, no job, and often on drugs. They can make so much more money hacking, it doesn't pay to take a factory job, there are very few high tech jobs there, and they are trained for little else. Truly, some venture capitalist should set up a fund to hire these kids for western software development and you'd probably see a huge drop in hacks coming from China. I can think of another characteristic that was left out of this article. The kids I’ve run into in the course of my studies that engage in cybercrime tend to pursue it because of economic reasons.

In rural areas, it’s the next best money-making venture after gold farming, because salaries in rural villages are so suppressed.

In urban areas, I have heard some of these kids refer to themselves as living outside society, without culture, generally meaning that they are living off the books, with no identity, no job, and often on drugs. They can make so much more money hacking, it doesn’t pay to take a factory job, there are very few high tech jobs there, and they are trained for little else.

Truly, some venture capitalist should set up a fund to hire these kids for western software development and you’d probably see a huge drop in hacks coming from China.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/2008/05/electronic-heroin-an-analysis-of-chinese-juvenile-cybercrime/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Eric Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:38:30 +0000 http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/?p=556#comment-1394 Impressa:) or as a Portuguese, vpechatlilso! Impressa:) or as a Portuguese, vpechatlilso!

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