{"id":1527,"date":"2005-07-06T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T07:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2005-07-06T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T07:36:48","slug":"russias_black_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Black Market Data Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/russiaa_black-.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globetechnology.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050705.gtrussia05\/BNStory\/Technology\/\">story<\/a> on the market for data in Moscow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Gorbushka vendor offers a hard drive with cash transfer records from Russia&#8217;s central bank for $1,500 (Canadian).<\/p>\n<p>At the Gorbushka kiosk, sales are so brisk that the vendor excuses himself to help other customers while the foreigner considers his options: $43 for a mobile phone company&#8217;s list of subscribers? Or $100 for a database of vehicles registered in the Moscow region?<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle database proves irresistible. It appears to contain names, birthdays, passport numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, descriptions of vehicles, and vehicle identification (VIN) numbers for every driver in Moscow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The recent passage of the National ID Act, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/002340.php\">supported by our good Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl<\/a> means that it won&#8217;t be long before all of our data is available in this manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier: Interesting story on the market for data in Moscow: This Gorbushka vendor offers a hard drive with cash transfer records from Russia&#8217;s central bank for $1,500 (Canadian). At the Gorbushka kiosk, sales are so brisk that the vendor excuses himself to help other customers while the foreigner considers his options: $43 for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}