Russia's 'Culture of Innovation'

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via the Foreign Policy "Net Effect" Blog.

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It turns out that over-regulating eBay is not going to rid us of all the
creeps and weirdos trolling the Interwebs. At least, not in Russia [1]:

    A serial killer obsessed with electricity murdered at least five people
in a series of lurid experiments to test his home-made electric chair,
Russian police said on Friday.

    The 30-year-old electrician, identified only as Dmitry K, lured victims
to his house by posting adverts for computer equipment on the internet.

    Police in Yekaterinburg, a city in Russia's Urals region, tracked the
suspect down after finding the charred body of a law student in a roadside
ditch.

    [...]

    According to police, the suspect also claimed to have designed a
doormat that would electrocute anyone who stood on it, but had yet to test
it.

    He also asked detectives to return a camera he had invented which used
an electro-magnetic ray to erase the memory of anyone he photographed with
it.



That is one pretty smart  electrician, I must say. And you say
"cyberwarfare"! With tools like this, Russians are unbeatable...


[snip]

Link:
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/01/russias_culture_of_inno
vation

[1]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5408821/Russian-inv
entor-murdered-five-in-home-made-electric-chair.html

Enjoy! :-)

- - ferg

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