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Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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acting like western nation didn't spy to each other Is he? I don't see that in his comment at all. Can you point out that part to us? Perhaps your handlers never taught you that two things can be bad at the same time.

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so Russia is the good guy here?

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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>"it’s just cultural" - so is being fucking racist

generalizations about a group of people are not “racist” when not talking about race, they’re also not inherently pejoratives either. reduction is to know what to expect

still buy the cameras, still buy the natural gas

just dont go on the public record saying its not backdoored knowing the supply chain

but assuming there was some introspection you were hoping to reveal, which culture were you considering to be racist?

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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so Russia is the good guy here?

now you putting word in my mouth, no one says that

but pointing "huh huh duurrr Russia is bad" while doing the same shit Russia doing is peak level irony

You don't have moral high ground

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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acting like western nation didn't spy to each other Is he? I don't see that in his comment at all. Can you point out that part to us? Perhaps your handlers never taught you that two things can be bad at the same time.

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it's not about Russia being good or bad, they will do anything in their interest like every other country. What's bad is Slovakia apparently not being careful enough about that.

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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I find it amusing that the biggest supporters or Russia in its current war of aggression against Ukraine are/were Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia -- precisely the countries that should know better, since they were the principal recipients the "love and friendship" from Russia: - Hungary: November of 1956 - Slovakia: "spring" of 1968 - Serbia: the Stalin's betrayal at the end of WW2

Are there any other wars that are not of aggression? What do you gain by parroting the legalese speak? Implying that it is extra bad and extra illegal war? Not your run of the mill PG-13 war? This one is X-rated kids.

Everyone knows who the attacker is - just some people root for Russia for their own reasons. Usually tied to the internal politics of their countries - like hating for unrelated reasons the political actors from their states that happen to support Ukraine.

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Sounds plausable. There is a video somewhere of a Finnish university professor from around the time the war started (maybe a bit before), explaining the Russian attitude to sportsmanship, or whatever you want to call it. Basically he suggested cheating is not considered unethical in Russia. If you are not using all means available to reach your goal you are leaving something on the table and are weak. This applies to…

"Who does not steal [from the state] steals from his family." - Eastern bloc communist era worker proverb.

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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It would be extremely stupid of Russia not to spy on Slovakia. If they had properly spied on Ukraine, they could have turned around 2014 and all of Nuland's "regime change" machinations. They have learned their lesson well now - do as the Americans do and spy on everyone - and most especially the "friendly" nations - by any and all means.

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Next up, chinese solar inverter firmware.

To do what? Turn off the power in random individual houses?

To piss away decades of hard-earned trust in its products for some short-term one-time political 'pwn' of the enemy.

If that goal sounds stupid to you, that's because it is. I would expect some countries that are not China to act with such a capricious lack of foresight.

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