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Moscow cameras streamed false pictures
Published: 13 January, 2010, 08:52
Edited: 02 February, 2010, 05:00
Police have learned that CCTV cameras all across Moscow streamed prerecorded pictures, while the company servicing them received more than a million dollars in payments.
Sarah, good point, but don't straight away assume the story is true. It looks a bit too ridiculous. The people I've met in Moscow are smart -- melancholy, nostalgic to the point of hopeless romanticism, heavy drinkers like us Finns, but smart -- and I don't off-hand buy the proposition that these security people just didn't notice anything odd on their screens. (The article doesn't say if it was still images or video loops -- I don't buy either one.) A wild wild guess: the company (also spreading a virus -- how original) is legit but didn't pay their "blat" and now gets nixed. That said, what the story says is also perfectly possible. Which is why I love Russia. Never simple. :-)
Well the russian have adopted Democracy,and want to be better than the west in scams.oh well not bad becoming democratic,plenty of perks if you are at the top.welcome russians we in the west have got used to being ripped off.All you need now is get your broadcasting and media peasents bombarding its subjects ,how great it is being democratic.,the humans masses are just sheep to be herded.
This is disgusting but I am happy that somebody is noticing this horrific scam. The next step is the company must be forced to pay back all the money it has received and some people must go to prison for this.