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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 nopenopenopeno »

mikeyouse wrote: post #208
nopenopenopeno wrote: post #189

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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.

He was narrowly elected and then had to flee the country once he started machine gunning unarmed protesters. Turns out his "narrow election" was at least partly due to the massive bribes he was paying out of the public coffers to election officials, opposition parties, & anti-corruption authorities. Literally nobody wants another war, hence why everyone is outraged at Russia for invading a peaceful Ukraine based on t…

Oh, please! You’re just reciting the ridiculous American media. US leaders have been aggressively rallying for war with Russia for many many years, and it has been especially intense over the past few months.

Putin is insane, but the US has given him every reason to believe that striking sooner than later is in his best interest. They didn’t have to do that, ya know. Americans have plenty of problems at home, and it is absolutely shameful that they can’t focus on them. Many parts of America are utter slums.

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Post by blobbers »

bink wrote: post #94

This thread is mostly full of jokes, and that's cool. But more seriously I'm exactly the kind of person I suppose this is meant to appeal to. I've spent the last 2-3 decades breaking into systems. Many of these systems comprise what the US calls "critical infrastructure". That's pipelines, power generation, transmission, distribution. Air traffic control systems. Government agencies. I'm based in the US. The problem…

Based in the US, which law prevents you from committing cyber attacks in Russia? Genuinely curious how you would be prosecuted and how this would cause you to risk your entire career.

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Post by oblio »

wolverine876 wrote: post #194
lurquer wrote: post #109

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> 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?

Current Belarus, North of Ukraine.

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Post by oblio »

HWR_14 wrote: post #134
weisk wrote: post #68

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You seem like a knowledgeable person. What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? And best of luck to you, dear friends.

So, there's a lot. For one, Putin seems to want to reassemble the USSR as a vanity project. Further, this all started (years ago) when the Ukrainians removed out their Moscow friendly president. Putin doesn't like reminders that months of sustained protests can really effect change and remove leaders, especially so close to Russia. Crimea is the only "warm water" port that Russia has access to to gain access for the…

> Crimea is the only "warm water" port that Russia has access to to gain access for the end and the Atlantic.

This is bullshit propaganda, sorry. Russia has over 1000km of coast at the Black Sea, to the East of Crimea.

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Post by expertjshn »

expertjshn wrote: post #186

Fullstack 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.

Change of plans, sir. Huge fight just started in my Javascript community - someone just pushed a new version of some extension and it's now injecting ads. Big drama sir. I'll report to duty next week - need to post angry emojis on the project's github repo till then.

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Post by oblio »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #179
jtsuken wrote: post #143

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The central bank accepts donations on behalf of the Ukrainian army: https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...

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This is crap.

9 Eastern European countries in the former Soviet sphere joined NATO and the EU and are currently going through one of their longest periods of growth and peace in their history.

There can be no long term prosperity with Russia.

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Post by atdrummond »

In my haste scrolling through the headlines, I initially read this as the Velvet Underground rather than hacker underground. Given that only Cale is left standing I was very concerned what Zelensky and the Ukraine government thought a single Welsh musician could do against the might of the Russian military.

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Post by oblio »

jollybean wrote: post #131
weisk wrote: post #68

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You seem like a knowledgeable person. What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? And best of luck to you, dear friends.

"What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? " It's not 'what it has' it's 'what it is'. Putin views the Ukraine as 'part of Russia' - that's it. I don't understand why people have such a hard time with this. Imagine if Mexico invaded Texas in 1950 and 'won'. A lot of Americans would want to 'take it back'. Now I don't believe that this analogy is real in terms of the Ukraine situation (Imagine if…

Urban resistance is a thing. It's super painful as you're destroying cities, but it's a thing.
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