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Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Post by fallingbananna »

koonsolo wrote: post #80
gumby wrote: post #16

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Slovakia is heavily influenced by Russian propaganda, which started way before Corona times. It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to leave. It's really sad, how these old people are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren, really crazy. You can say a lot about Russia, but they are very good with misin…

It's rooted in the education system to this day.

The majority of school teachers grew up under the Soviet side of cold war propaganda.

And in history education in particular, we are told that "we" have always looked towards Russia as a role model, to fight Hungarian nationalism (since the country was just part of Hungary for most of its history).

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LogTrim wrote: post #23

The detail that gets me is the Ministry saying the cameras were safe because they'd be on a closed network, while the backdoor can apparently be triggered via SMS from hardcoded phone numbers. That's a pretty good demonstration of why "it's not exposed to the internet" isn't a security boundary if the device itself has an out-of-band communications path. Add Secure Boot being disabled and unauthenticated live streams…

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Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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chimpontherun wrote: post #32
gumby wrote: post #16

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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

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Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Post by koonsolo »

fallingbananna wrote: post #91
koonsolo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slovakia is heavily influenced by Russian propaganda, which started way before Corona times. It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to leave. It's really sad, how these old people are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren, really crazy. You can say a lot about Russia, but they are very good with misin…

It's rooted in the education system to this day. The majority of school teachers grew up under the Soviet side of cold war propaganda. And in history education in particular, we are told that "we" have always looked towards Russia as a role model, to fight Hungarian nationalism (since the country was just part of Hungary for most of its history).

That is possible, but I also see people who used to be very anti-Soviet, now to be anti-EU and anti-Ukraine. It's kind of like they hated Russia in the past, but now are convinced that EU and Ukraine are worse.

When in the past they would claim that the Soviet times were bad, now they would claim that it wasn't that bad in the end. That is of course because of all the horrible things that are happening in EU, like gay and trans people, and vaccinations. Terrible! Let's bring those good old Soviet days back!

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Post by GauntletWizard »

amelius wrote: post #71
GauntletWizard wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big fuck-up, but some people prefer (nobly even if I don't abide by the same rule) to keep some words out of their mouths.

spelled like that the "u" could mean "you".

You've got a point, a fuck-up and a fuck-you are somewhat different in this context, though I was assuming both had malice in my original interpretation.

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Post by juliusceasar »

toasty228 wrote: post #75
juliusceasar wrote: post #60

Russia to Slovakia is Israel to USA. Puppet state.

Most people talking about Slovakia wouldn't even be able to put it on a map or know what currency they use, but they become instant geo political expert. They don't even know how to pronounce Fico properly... Give me a break lmao

That is your argument? Omg, the level of it...

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Post by codedokode »

bdhdhduuyd wrote: post #6

So they bought the cameras and some people pointed out they look exactly the same as Russian cameras. The government denied this but after they figured out the serial numbers matched the Russian cameras they started this investigation. Good they investigated this before using them, but this sounds like a big fu...

With high probablity they are actually made in China. I don't think Russia makes their own chips for cameras.

Re: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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Post by fmajid »

koonsolo wrote: post #80
gumby wrote: post #16

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Slovakia is heavily influenced by Russian propaganda, which started way before Corona times. It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to leave. It's really sad, how these old people are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren, really crazy. You can say a lot about Russia, but they are very good with misin…

Old people are ruining their grandchildren’s lives everywhere, not just in Slovakia.

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Post by spiderfarmer »

Loughla wrote: post #64
spiderfarmer wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My brother visited some of these countries. He said most people there are oblivious to what happened to their countries. They simply don't care. It also didn't help that everyone he met (agricultural sector) was a day-drinker. That's why they're doomed to repeat it. Again and again.

It's almost like people who are simply trying to survive don't have the time, energy, or space to worry about international, or even national affairs. Weird.

They’re not simply trying to survive. They’re not that poor.

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Post by [deleted] »

inglor_cz wrote: post #46
chimpontherun wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The Slovaks ultimately got federalization of Czechoslovakia from the crisis (1969), which both distracted them and made their memories less negative. As far as Hungary goes, I asked my friend who studied Hungarian history. He explained to me that while the Soviet invasion was very traumatic, the subsequent Kádár "goulash socialism" was a lot more lenient on the people than all the other Soviet Bloc regimes, and that…

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