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

The most glaring error was leaving the 27-character password to a laptop sitting around on a piece of paper for federal agents to find during a search. It led to cracking the ring's steganography efforts and finding secret messages in Web images.

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