Top Russian spy ring technology screw-ups

Alleged Russian spies arrested last month in cities around the United States seemed to be lacking in spycraft and in urgent need of some IT expertise

One of the suspects complained that his netbook would hang or freeze before completing application functions. "They must have been running [Windows] XP," says security consultant John Pironti. "That's all netbooks were running at that time, and who hasn't found running custom stuff on XP to be challenging?"

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