podcasts and h/p and the dot-ru connection

There is some interesting content archived and being archived in mp3 format regarding the h/p scene. For example binrev.com has some great content for the price...free. And in particular stromcarlson has done some great work documenting modern phone network sounds. I've used to the yearly release of blackhat/defcon mp3s on the respective sites, but now we have HOPE, phreakNIC and all sorts of other cons encoding to audio.

Over the last few months I've been looking at more and more russian hacking sites. I've always been a visitor to well known sites like cr@cklab, r3team and web-hack. But more and more are showing up with good content. The problem is that a large number of these sites are blatantly associated with criminal activity. Ethics aside the sites have some relevant content to legitimate reversing and basic knowledge of the ru scene.