Earlier quoted context omitted.
Defending an ally from an enemy is not something the US government punishes people for. If you want to help the people of Ukraine then #standwithukraine.
ukraine is not an ally of USA though
No post body was provided.
Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
181–190 of 636 posts
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#182I'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 doe…
Quoted post unavailable.
I see you know nothing about Ukraine.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is extremely terrible advice. You should delete your comment before you cause someone to go to jail.
A sort of side comment, but I absolutely despise this type of thinking. "before you cause someone to go to jail" If you take legal advice from pseudo anonymous users on aggregate websites you deserve to go to jail. Even in writing that, the users did not "cause" anyone to go to jail; the moron reading and acting on that comment did. Have some respect for individuality mate.
Oh come on man. If being a dumbarse and engaging in dangerous behaviour was a jailable offence, then we'd need to arrest every single male under the age of 21.
(To any dumbarses reading this comment, launching cyberattacks against adversarial nation states will land you in prison if you're lucky, a body bag if you're not)
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#184Anonymous is supposedly joining the cyber war: https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1496954233492541444 https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1496965766435926039 They are claiming responsibility for taking down RT.com and some other Russian sites.
Any time someone refers to Anonymous as if they are actually some kind of cohesive group it's a clear indicator they have no idea what they are talking about.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not familiar with RT, what "propaganda" were they spreading? I've known of "rt.com" for a while, seeing it posted occasionally, and it never was anything that gave me pause (didn't even known it stood for Russia Today until today).
RT is a well-known Russian propaganda operation. The fact that your response to it was "it never was anything that gave me pause" is a sign that you did not detect the propaganda and that it may have been working on you.
Meh! RT is no different from BBC or Al Jazeera or any other state media. They will have more balanced take on most news compared to any corporate propaganda outlets like CNN or Fox.
The state news agencies are only problematic as sources when they are writing about their own government or immediate enemies... in that they will tend to prefer publishing what their leaders are saying vs what the enemy is saying about them.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#186Fullstack developer with Javascript experience reporting to duty. I'll unleash hell with my extensive experience in pop-ups, pop-unders, alerts, ads and auto loading loud videos.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, it's probably legal for you to fill out the application as a US citizen, as the Ukrainians are also asking for defensive help. If you have or want a US security clearance there may be issues in helping a foreign power, but absent that you can probably stay on the right side of the line. Obviously, you'd want a real legal opinion. I do wonder at what point the US just declares Russian computer systems beyond t…
Aren't Russian computer systems already beyond the protection of US law?
Why would they be? If you're physically in the US and commit a crime, I think it's still a US crime even if the victim is outside the US.
I doubt the US would prosecute you though for hacking Russia.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#188The only sanction that has enough teeth to so anything is to remove Russia from SWIFT. Without Germany’s backing, this will not happen. In addition to boycotting Russia, citizens of the world should be boycotting German products until they agree to ban Russia from SWIFT. Putin is risking World War III and Germany has decided to let it slide to avoid some short-term economic pain. Not cool.
Removing Russia from SWIFT is the financial equivalent of a nuclear option. It will block Russian banks and businesses to receive or pay for goods and services in the short term, effectively cutting them from the rest of the world.
The message that weaponizing SWIFT will send is that the platform is no longer as reliable for financial purposes. In the long term, it will increase the interest for alternative solutions that will further fragment payments and markets.
Bankers do not like uncertainty. They will find ways around this restriction and likely keep the alternatives. If this happens, SWIFT is not coming back to Russia when this is over.
Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quoted post unavailable.
So many gross Russian apologists on HN. Ukraine would be in a much better financial position if kleptocrats like Yanukovych hadn't siphoned billions of dollars of public money into their own pockets with the help of American collaborators like Paul Manafort. Something like 1/2 of a year's GDP stolen by Yanukovych and his cronies. https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-treasury-stripped-by-oust...
So what? Why is that the EU’s and NATO’s responsibility? He was legitimately elected.
We never came up with a reason for war in Afghanistan for 20 years and haven’t been out of Afghanistan for 2 months, but Americans are already bending over backwards to start another one. Unreal.