Su suggerimento di @Ergosfera

Su Bloomberg la storia di Andrés Sepúlveda, hacker colombiano trentunenne che sta scontando in carcere una pena di 10 anni e per la prima volta ha raccontato come sia riuscito per quasi un decennio a manipolare le elezioni in moltissimi paesi dell’America Latina.

Sepúlveda’s career began in 2005, and his first jobs were small—mostly defacing campaign websites and breaking into opponents’ donor databases. Within a few years he was assembling teams that spied, stole, and smeared on behalf of presidential campaigns across Latin America. He wasn’t cheap, but his services were extensive. For $12,000 a month, a customer hired a crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $20,000 a month, also included a full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense. The jobs were carefully laundered through layers of middlemen and consultants. Sepúlveda says many of the candidates he helped might not even have known about his role; he says he met only a few.

 

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