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Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by Muromec »

simion314 wrote: post #99
v5v3 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russia and all non-usa allies have been the winner. China etc have seen the strategies used in sanctions. They know how to limit their impact now. It's also brought Russia/China/Iran/North Korea and wider Brics together. It's been a disaster for the west. The measure of success was Russia weakened and ideally Putin weakened or gone. And instead Russia have shrugged off the sanctions, and Putin is much stronger. And t…

Maybe if Ruzzia where the logic is always reversed Putin caused 1 NATO to get 2 new members, gg Putin 2 NATO to invest more in weapons, gg Putin 3 killed or wounded 1 million Russians while the population was already in decline and I would bet the birth rate is decreasing because of the war 4 economy is fucked, Gazprom reported first time ever no proffits, interests rates increased 5 the idiots managed to hit again a…

>5 the idiots managed to hit again a civilian airplane, and i read recently Azerbajan and Armenia are cooperating to get rid of Ruzzians on their lands

That's one way to get nominated for Nobel peace prize.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by hu3 »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

This is why documenting is so crucial. Even on a software architecture level.

A few months from now, I'd love to have written down decisions for my current project:

- Why did I decided to use Kysely over Drizzle, Knex, Prisma, TypeORM or other ORM/SQL tool?

- How am I going to do migrations?

- Why am I using one of Deno/Bun over sticking to nodejs?

- Why did I structure the project as a directory per feature over controllers/models/services directories?

- Why did I fork this library and what are the steps to keep this thing updated? Do I plan to upstream my changes? Is there a GitHub issue or PR about it?

- Why am I hosting in one of AWS/GCP/Azure? Why not lambda functions? Why docker?

- Why did I pick this specific distribution of kubernetes over the other also lightweight alternatives?

- Why did I even start this project and what do I aim to accomplish with it?

So I created a # Decisions section in README.md

This way I don't keep doubting my own decisions and wasting time opening 20 documentation tabs to compare solutions yet again.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by ivan_gammel »

grishka wrote: post #48

That's a very odd website. Blocked by the Russian government so you get a TLS error, once you get past that, you get the Cloudflare "you are blocked" page, and then you use a VPN and... get the option to read this article in Russian.

The linked page is in English, but speaking of the option - residents of Russian Federation probably were not a target audience of Russian version of this website anyway. Contrary to some popular beliefs in Russia about language wars, many people still do speak Russian in Ukraine and media do publish articles in Russian.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by oneshtein »

johnisgood wrote: post #86
victorbjorklund wrote: post #41

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Why would that be the case? Ukraine has a very large IT sector and they have a lot of good IT security specialists. To be honest, a lot of cybercriminals have been from Ukraine. So I don't see why it would be the case that Ukraine could not have done this by themselves. They have done previous attacks by themselves. I don't see why that would be the case. It would kind of be like saying, "Oh, if Russia does a cyberat…

That is not how I read the parent comment. I read it as US making Ukraine do what US wanted to do.

It's tough to say that Ukraine and US are allies right now. US refuses to hold security assurance, as promised, and forbids Ukraine to restore nuclear arsenal, as before the promise. Bullies behave is such way, not allies.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by tialaramex »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #79
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #70

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Modern IT practices don’t really contemplate disaster recovery. Even organisations with strict backup procedures seldom test recovery (most never at all). Everything is quickly strapped together due to teams being understaffed. Preparing infrastructure in a way such that it can easily be recreated is easily twice the effort as “just” setting it up the usual way.

Just the other day one of my clients had a production critical server failing and we started restoring it from backups. Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server. It turns out that the company that made this important piece of software doesn't even exist anymore.

Virtualization really helps. We have a lot of weird software which requires hardware dongles, but they're all USB dongles and they're all virtualized, one of the DC racks has a few U worth of just USB socket -> dongle wired up so that if we spin up a VM it can say "Hey, give me a USB socket with a FooCorp OmniBloat dongle on it" and get one unless they're all used.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by oneshtein »

v5v3 wrote: post #53
victorbjorklund wrote: post #44

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Russia has 1 million in casualties and has failed to capture Ukraine. You really think you can claim it was a "win" because now all their experienced soldiers are dead and their strategy has been reduced to "run towards the enemy and hopefully some of you won't be killed and thus we can capture another field"?

Russia has a population of 144m. 1m is not a lot Edit: as per my comment below, casualties are not deaths. It's a wider definition.

Name your number.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by v5v3 »

trhway wrote: post #62
v5v3 wrote: post #53

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Russia has a population of 144m. 1m is not a lot Edit: as per my comment below, casualties are not deaths. It's a wider definition.

>1m is not a lot. For anybody still questioning why the civilized word must stop Russia, i'd suggest to mediate a couple seconds over the parent comment (the commenter in the parent and in his other comments presents Russian position quite correctly)

It's 1m Casualties. Not deaths.

The definition of which is quite wide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_(person)

>"A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion."

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by worldsayshi »

jjani wrote: post #75
worldsayshi wrote: post #60

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Excel has the benefit of being understandable and fixable by a lot of regular office workers. It's a bit surprising that we don't have that feature as a requirement for most IT infrastructure. It would make it so much more usable.

Most of those office workers were not capable of fixing anything on the first day they used Excel. Many didn't understand it at all. The main difference isn't that Excel is super accessible and easy to use for non-technical people; it's its ubiquity, and especially that of training on its usage.

Ubiquity is important but it's not the only important factor. An excel sheet can typically be downloaded and experimented with. You can't download an ERP system and try stuff with it.
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