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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by capableweb »

lostmsu wrote: post #170
pshirshov wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skynet is a command execution and metric collection layer used in basic cluster ops. Nothing cool to be honest. Essentially it allows you to run a command on all the hosts matching a predicate. This was the easiest way to disrupt a whole datacenter for those who had enough privileges, I did it at least once. Also several times unnoticed bugs in my code shut down literally everything for noticeable periods of time. I'…

There's no confirmation about the number of machines the script is going to affect?

Probably, but irrelevant. What you really need is a confirmation if the sent command will lead to bugs/downtime or not. If you think the command is working 100%, why would you say no to run it on 1000s of machines all at once?

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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rad_gruchalski wrote: post #223
SXX wrote: post #136

If you want to know what's inside archives without downloading them I'm slowly working on my blog post about this breach. Will try to write a bit about affected Yandex services for those who never been interested in russian internet segment. Also uploaded file lists from most of archives: https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...

I have seen your article. This bit caught my attention: > All files are dated back to 24 February 2022. If a coincidence, pretty interesting.

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by account42 »

Scoundreller wrote: post #118
ncpa-cpl wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their Street View product is also very good, however their coverage is mostly for ex Soviet Union countries

heh, I remember looking up some satellite maps of French prisons on Google maps. They were blurred!!!! https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Centre+P%C3%A9nitentiaire+d... A quick trip over to Yandex, and there they were in their full glory: https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/?l=sat&ll=2.340173%2C48....

Good on Google for telling us what places to pay attention to ;)

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by thdespou »

htzhcfzubhfjk wrote: post #139

Ukrainians probably hacked Yandex, because they thought, it is a Russian engine, but it is actually from Netherland/EU. They should be careful, otherwise Netherland will stop helping them with weapons pretty quickly.

I don't think the Dutch would mind. They are giving Leopards to Ukraine.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by account42 »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #35
imglorp wrote: post #23

Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.

Yandex regular search is very good too, especially at surfacing results which appear to be censored by Google. The only problem is the interface language keeps flipping back to Russian.

Is there a meta search engine that highlights results from Yandex that are missing from or ranked much lower on Google?

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by arianvanp »

htzhcfzubhfjk wrote: post #139

Ukrainians probably hacked Yandex, because they thought, it is a Russian engine, but it is actually from Netherland/EU. They should be careful, otherwise Netherland will stop helping them with weapons pretty quickly.

it's just in Netherlands for tax evasion like many Russian Oligarchs (https://www.deondernemer.nl/politiek/oekraine/oekraine-houth...)

We don't care. burn it to the ground

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