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American NGO affected by your recklessness (node-ipc vulnerability)

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Re: American NGO affected by your recklessness (node-ipc vulnerability)

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The real reason this shouldn't be allowed is because the internet is absolutely not secure enough for citizens from one country to start attacking other countries. You think it's funny to wipe a Russians hard drive with a heart but I garuntee what they do back out of spite won't be. The very epitome of throwing rocks from glass houses.

I'm not even sure if we have to consider retribution why this is a bad idea. There is no control over the blast radius this has. It could hit anything, from a military or criminal system (possibly doing something you could consider good) down to any kind of hospital, humanitarian organization, an org collecting data against putin. In any kind of conventional weapon used by a western state, such a lack of control would be a huge no-go.

Re: American NGO affected by your recklessness (node-ipc vulnerability)

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Sounds like a fake story. What idiots would only store their war crime evidence database inside the aggressor state and not keep backups of it abroad? If true, this arrangement was pretty much doomed to fail anyway. node-ipc did a good thing by notifying them of their folly before the Belarus KGB or Russian FSB did.

Maybe read the story before commenting next time.

I did, what makes you think I didn’t?

> Due to internet censorship there, one of the web services used to contact us securely was hosted on servers located inside Belarus

This story is fucking crazy. Just think about it for a moment. A clearnet service hosted in Belarus to “securely” report war crimes? With all the data stored inside Belarus?

If this story is true, it’s absolutely a good thing that their server got wiped.

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