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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 juanani »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #430
neonsunset wrote: post #367

1: Small website with simple JS to ddos a list of russian gov and propaganda websites. Works anywhere where those are not blocked (e.g. Ukraine). Link - https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/ 2. Console tool for unplanned load testing Link - https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier/releases/tag/v1.2.... Example usage - ./bombardier-linux-amd64 --duration=240h --connections=1000 --latencies https://lenta.ru U…

"The "official" news in russian federation are all fake and we believe it is better to shut them down!" Now the people are the censors? In the fog of war, how can we judge information if we have no access to the information? Is it fake news that the U.S. said that they would not let N.A.T.O. into Ukraine? As with all technologies, they come with responsibility. Acting as self censors is just as bad as letting the gov…

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Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by wiseowise »

env123 wrote: post #347
reitanqild wrote: post #331

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Reading this for a second time and sticking to what I said about being ashamed for many of the things the west did I'd also like to remind that Russia hasn't really done much at all in the middle East. But I can remember stories from my childhood about Russians tying up Afghan fighters and driving over them with tanks to make an example, so again without defending drone strikes on weddings or Abu Ghraib or anything o…

Looking at history, Russia seems like the lesser evil here. It makes far more sense to have security concerns over your backyard. Attacking the local mosque on the other side of the river, because a Muslim robber came by is not self-defense

Ukraine is sovereign European country, not Russian backyard.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by belter »

Loughla wrote: post #480
cobbzilla wrote: post #363

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All three Baltic nations are NATO members. An attack on any NATO member requires a response by NATO. So, not likely that Latvia is next.

>An attack on any NATO member requires a response by NATO. I am not, even slightly, sure that this is the case anymore. Economic sanctions is as far as anyone is willing to go anymore it seems - and half-assed ones at that. I absolutely cannot see the US, England, or any other NATO countries sending people to die in Latvia. There just is zero stomach for that in most of the world. And people like Putin know that, is…

That is exactly why the situation is so dangerous. If there is even a hint that the US and the whole of NATO will not come in strong, then yes there is the possibility that he could go further.

There is another very dangerous scenario that has not been considered. A Russian inspired coup in one of the existing NATO countries with a not so small large Russian speaking population. That government then saying they want to leave NATO.

On another side, it's not even mentioned that in the middle of the war action in Ukraine, nobody seems to have noticed Putin just annexed another country, Byelorussia. The Russian troops were supposed to leave at the end of their 3 week long exercises, but they are now leaving...never.

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Post by wiseowise »

trasz wrote: post #464
wowokay wrote: post #454

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Yes but at least the US had probable cause to go into Iraq. The world was pretty much behind that decision. We were attacked, civilians were attacked directly, none of that conflict would have occurred if Iraq or neighboring countries stopped their terrorism.

What you’ve just said isn’t any different from Russian propaganda.

Uhuh, isn't any different from calling Ukraine fiction, that it basically never existed, everyone is neonazi. Annexing Crimea, East of country and then attacking under deluaion claims.

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Post by cik2e »

amcoastal wrote: post #445
jl6 wrote: post #419

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Really, how much defensive value does this have for Ukraine? DDOSing Russian news websites just allows them to cry victim - “look, they don’t want you to hear the truth!”. Disrupting the Russian internet in general also harms any anti-war protesters trying to organize.

It is the job of the Russian people to stand up and refuse to participate in this conflict. Anything that makes their lives harder so they are more likely to do that, as opposed to just sitting around on their ass, is a good thing. The Russians need to band together and topple their dictator state, they are acting unethically and there needs to be a groundswell of support to oust someone like Putin. Simple democracy…

Voters kept Bush Jr. in office for a second term. Term limits got rid of him.

If you're referring to Bush Sr., then this is also incorrect. The economy and Ross Perot got rid of him.

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Post by whateveracct »

ttybird2 wrote: post #468
amcoastal wrote: post #445

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It is the job of the Russian people to stand up and refuse to participate in this conflict. Anything that makes their lives harder so they are more likely to do that, as opposed to just sitting around on their ass, is a good thing. The Russians need to band together and topple their dictator state, they are acting unethically and there needs to be a groundswell of support to oust someone like Putin. Simple democracy…

Would you say the same for the Americans and USA's warmongering? Or for the Jewish people and the situation at Gaza? Voters got rid of Bush but this did not stop the unjust American wars. The Russian citizens are people just like us, powerless and with their own peace to protect.

Voters in fact did not get rid of Bush. Unless you mean HW.

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Post by ineedasername »

amcoastal wrote: post #457
sorenjan wrote: post #441

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Putin's speech about a military operation in Ukraine was recorded before Germany halted Nord Stream 2. What happens now has been planned for months. Not sure what you mean by SWIFT being the last option before war, war is happening right now.

He means its the last card the west can play short of war. If they unleash all of their cards now they have no chance at dealing with Putin in the next few days. As small as the hope sounds, its possible Ukraine could resist enough and possibly hold some ground, and Putin could be convinced to stop his advance at some point with the threat of swift being revoked.

Our cards won't change in the next few days. If playing them now or a few days ago wouldn't have stopped Putin, why do you think those same cards would work better once Putin has gone even further and owns Kyiv?

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Post by marius_k »

neonsunset wrote: post #381
urbandw311er wrote: post #375

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Constantly errors by triggering cross-origin / access control checks in browser: is this intended and is the tool still effective in spite of this?

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Does CORS security work on the client side response data? The server should still receive the load, right?

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Post by lucb1e »

dschulz wrote: post #101
lucb1e wrote: post #78

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You'd have to cut literally every cable and satellite connection and radio transmission in and out of the country. With something as geographically distributed as Russia, that sounds very hard to convince every country to convince every operator to... and even then, there's some wireless options.

I don't think it's necessary to physically cut cables. What if critical infrastructure is isolated from savages by just not having routes to/from them? I mean, in a similar way the Team Cymru UTRS[1] works by publishing a list of BGP filters to be imported in routers. [1] https://team-cymru.com/community-services/utrs/

Agreed, it was a metaphor and not really meant as a call for physical damage that would (presumably) later have to be fixed again anyway. I should have written that more clearly.
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