If people from around the world could go to Spain or Finland in the 30's to fight, I don't see much of a difference today.
Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
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#192Seriously, I would love to hear Edward Snowden's opinion. Not much on his twitter about it though.
Maybe he only now realized he's just an asset. (As opposed to Assange in the Equatorial embassy, which was given asylum for purely humanitarian reasons)
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#193Fullstack 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.
You forgot the clear as mud webpack configs ! :D
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not the person you asked, but the very well-known understanding, going back probably to Napoleon or earlier (among foreign policy experts), is that Ukraine has geopolitics. Geography is far more important to national power than non-experts realize. Without Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, Russia loses sea access to the Black Sea and thus the Mediterranean for their navy (and also for trade), which historically has be…
> Napoleon and the Nazis both crossed through that region on their way to Russia Hitler yes. Napoleon no. The French neither attacked nor retreated through what is now Ukraine.
Note that I hedged with, "through that region" (because I didn't have time to lookup the route). So which way did they go?
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#195Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
#196You have my portscanner.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's reasonable to assume that for at least the next few months, you have a strange form of "diplomatic immunity" for attacks in Russia. No jury in the US would convict you, even in the unlikely event someone wanted to prosecute (which would be political suicide here). So, have at it.
Reminder to other readers: don't take legal advice from hn
Reminder to people who didn't grow up in the US: Americans are by and large a bloodthirsty, vindictive lot and pay an astounding amount of attention to who their friends are. This is sometimes a force for evil, sometimes a force for good, but it is what it is.
Sure, don't take legal advice from me. Use a VPN.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't Russian computer systems already beyond the protection of US law?
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.
Attacking systems still remains illegal within US. Making that choice is a bet on the whims of what prosecutors are willing to prosecute.
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#199This is clearly illegal in the US. Both under the ‘hacking’ laws as well as under laws prohibiting private citizens from interfering in international diplomacy. Really surprised such a thread is permitted on HN.
I don't see how it's illegal for a president to ask people from his own country to fill in a form to see if they can volunteer.
Can you elaborate?
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#200Perfect shield for NATO/US to launch state-level cyberattack without attribution.
It was random hackers-4-hire after all!