The weather has been absolutely spring like in the City by the Bay. Despite late winter rains in early March, the weather has turned. The Golden State Warriors are getting ready for the playoffs, and the SF Giants had Opening day 2018 yesterday(They Lost). My friend Art, now retired, is a new usher in the stands at AT & T Park. It's a nice gig: good seats, free admission, little responsibility, excepting reading a seat number from a ticket stub and pointing the fan to his spot.
Now the City is hosting its newest visitor, Yevgeny Nikulin, 30, a Russyan hacker. He's been sitting in jail in Prague, Czech Republic, for several months as the government of Czech Rep. worked out the details of the extradition request from the US Dept. of Justice. After months of legal details, he was put on a plane last week under guard, and flown to the US, to California to be exact. He will now answer for his crimes, which are numerous. Russyan diplomats made the customary protests over the extradition. They also claimed, erroneously, that Mr. Nikulin was mistreated while in a Prague jail. Nobody expects less from that quarter.
While it may not have much effect on the international hacking club, it does serve notice to those with hacking on the agenda, that the law will be enforced wherever these criminals are hiding. Mr. Nikulin will learn what justice really is, not like the "justice" that the Kremlin dispenses on the governed in the largest country in the world, home to the GULAG.
I suspect Mr. Nikulin will not see a free day for at least 30 years. He'll be about 60 when finally breathes a bit of fresh, free, air. Perhaps he'll write a memoir. Perhaps he'll explain his motives. But in 30 years, nobody will remember, nobody will care, and all his family and friends will have abandoned him. Maybe Mr. Putin will send condolences; maybe not.
Smell that salt sea air, Mr. Nikulin? We City folks grew up with that in our nostrils; it's invigorating. Believe it or not, it's peak season is during the northern summer, when it's 95-100 degrees in central Asia. But you are probably from Moscova, or St. Petersburg, where they just sent all the American diplomats packing.
Have a nice visit.
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