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

Post by baybal2 » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 10:07 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #15

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.