Posted on 07/09/2015 6:57:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
In late June, a short-haired, 41-year-old Russian in a black shirt and brown jacket entered a courtroom in Bonn, Germany. His face and appearance were completely unremarkable, yet numerous reporters, most of them Russian, were there, eager to finally see Sergei Maksimov, the man who allegedly had been terrorizing the Russian blogosphere for years—possibly at the behest of the Kremlin.
The prosecution contends that Maksimov is Hacker Hell, a cybercriminal who, since the late 2000s, has been breaking into email and LiveJournal accounts of prominent Russian bloggers and opposition activists. After getting access to a blog, Hell would usually delete all of its contents and write posts in deliberately faulty Russian, full of obscene language and anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks.
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