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Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by koolba »

pcwalton wrote: post #20
joeman1000 wrote: post #12

I’d like to get involved but have cursory ‘hacking’ knowledge. I’m handy with a terminal and can program. Would I be of use?

If you have to ask, lone wolf behavior is more likely to end up with you in jail than to do anything that helps Ukraine. If you are serious and are a citizen of a signatory to NATO, consider enlisting with your country's cyber force.

What does being a NATO signatory have to do with anything? Ukraine is not a part of NATO and I’m not aware of NATO authorizing any direct military or digital action against Russia.

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Post by simne »

I'm Ukrainian activist for 10+ years, have been on Maidan, etc, know many other activists.

Unfortunately, we have not seen understanding with any government. Looks like, all people who got to government or state organizations, work on classical totalitarian scheme - "for friends all the best, for all others - severity of the law". Mean, system is so much disbalanced, that any government got totalitarian power and does not account on people. And laws are created, to make all people offenders, and with very wide possibilities of interpretation, so state officials and their friends become above law.

If you really want to help Ukraine, better to contact volunteers-entrepreneurs, who where on Maidan, and who struggle for economic freedoms, and support Ukrainian army as private persons, without government/state.

You could just donate, or you could create some business opportunity, so Ukrainians will make business, export working hours, or export some products to world.

Business opportunities much better, because Ukraine now have critically huge dependence on Russian market, close to 50% of all trade, need much-much more export to world.

Thank You!

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Post by xwdv »

pcwalton wrote: post #20
joeman1000 wrote: post #12

I’d like to get involved but have cursory ‘hacking’ knowledge. I’m handy with a terminal and can program. Would I be of use?

If you have to ask, lone wolf behavior is more likely to end up with you in jail than to do anything that helps Ukraine. If you are serious and are a citizen of a signatory to NATO, consider enlisting with your country's cyber force.

Only if you’re an amateur. I got shell access into some public utilities that had old versions of Windows in Russia that I’m looking at right now. Maybe I can turn off some power grids.

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Post by greggh »

58x14 wrote: post #9
imwillofficial wrote: post #3

Interesting, I wonder how hack groups have comms and form groups over stuff like this. I’m not plugged into the hacker underground, how does it work?

Things are pretty ad-hoc, peer to peer. Sometimes signal, sometimes old-fashioned irc (usually people have their own clients for e2e). Pubkeys are often shared around more general discussion on onion boards. It's easy to personify what we could call "brands" like Anonymous, but the reality is there are many "tribes" who range in size and culture, frequently working collectively towards disrupting power structures.

Really well said. I like the tribes analogy.
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