Russian Police Only Translate the Good News
Summary: Krebs on Security reported in December 2010 that the Russian Interior Ministry (MVD) website's English edition carried only positive headlines for December 14, such as photo exhibitions and a mini-football tournament win, while the Russian edition that same day listed bribery arrests, a contract killing case, drug trafficking convictions and police prosecuted for fraud. Krebs noted the same pattern across the MVD news archives, and cyber security expert Jeff Carr said he had seen similar filtering on many Chinese government websites.
Key Takeaway: The article's core observation is that Russian law enforcement, the same agencies Krebs notes are criticized for not prioritizing hacker investigations, presents a curated English-language face while its domestic pages carry arrests and prosecutions. For a security leader, the practical stake is that open-source intelligence gathered from English-language government portals can be incomplete by design.
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