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Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

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Re: Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

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Post by krunck »

avmich wrote: post #9
jszymborski wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a bit of bad faith to characterize "aggressor in an unprovoked, expansionist war against your country and who has killed or wounded 400,000 of your countrymen" as simply "people you don't like".

In wars it's important who started first. In Russia-Ukraine war this is quite clear.

Please, expand on your thesis.

Re: Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

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Post by tim333 »

billy99k wrote: post #2

Seems typical: illegal actions against people you don't like? win an award. illegal actions against people you like? we need prison time and sanctions.

Illegal under which legal system? International law mostly allows countries to fight back against invasion.

Re: Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

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Post by Barrin92 »

toss1 wrote: post #4

I hope Kristopher Kortright stays well. He's done great work here. But it seems a major OpSec flaw to allow one's identity to be publicized after cracking into the wartime systems of a genocidally aggressive state known for epidemic levels of "window cancer" and killing people on other nations territory using exotic and non-exotic means (polonium tes, nerve agents, or just dozens of bullets and running over with at t…

As an American citizen you're pretty safe. I don't think there's even a single record of an American being targeted on American soil. They tend to only go after their own for diplomatic reasons.

That said I think regardless there's a lot of value seeing ordinary people stand up to dictators because frankly that's what you need given the increasing tendency to intimidate people in civic life.

Re: Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

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Post by lm28469 »

billy99k wrote: post #2

Seems typical: illegal actions against people you don't like? win an award. illegal actions against people you like? we need prison time and sanctions.

Wait until you learn killing is legal during wartime... Absolutely revolting
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