Why Won’t Russia Bust Its Hackers?
In November, 2009, U.S. authorities identified BadB, one of the internet’s most ingenious financial criminals, as 27-year-old Moscow resident Vladislav Horohorin. He was recently arrested in France. But why did Russian authorities let him operate freely in the meantime? NYT sketches out a few popular theories among security experts as to why, generally, Russia has…