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Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by randomsearch »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #249
reitanqild wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are probably downvoted for - voluntarily or involuntarily (I cannot judge) - running the errands of the enemies of the free world by suggesting that it is hopeless while it is absolutely not. (Why is it not hopeless? Russian forces suffer large losses and their morale is breaking, after all, what sane person wants to shoot their peaceful neigbours and relatives? Russians are already taking to the streets to prote…

The phrase "the free world" rubs me the wrong way. I'm obviously against what Russia is doing, any sane man would be. But as a middle eastern, the US to us has been 10x worse than Russia: They killed a million Iraqis, they killed Syrian civilians by bombing hospitals and schools. They overthrew a functional government in Libya, and they supported Syrian/Iraqi separatists (Kurds). They forcefully tried to build a mili…

If you think the US has been worse for the Syrians than Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of its cities, I cannot take the rest of your argument seriously.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by bink »

blobbers wrote: post #213
bink wrote: post #94

This thread is mostly full of jokes, and that's cool. But more seriously I'm exactly the kind of person I suppose this is meant to appeal to. I've spent the last 2-3 decades breaking into systems. Many of these systems comprise what the US calls "critical infrastructure". That's pipelines, power generation, transmission, distribution. Air traffic control systems. Government agencies. I'm based in the US. The problem…

Based in the US, which law prevents you from committing cyber attacks in Russia? Genuinely curious how you would be prosecuted and how this would cause you to risk your entire career.

There's a seemingly endless collection of crimes you could be charged with if you're hacking a foreign country from inside the US. From wire fraud to conspiracy and everything in-between. A federal charge of conspiracy carries a mandatory minimum of 5 years in jail.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by yesenadam »

Gwarzo wrote: post #165
lalaland1125 wrote: post #149

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This is extremely terrible advice. You should delete your comment before you cause someone to go to jail.

A sort of side comment, but I absolutely despise this type of thinking. "before you cause someone to go to jail" If you take legal advice from pseudo anonymous users on aggregate websites you deserve to go to jail. Even in writing that, the users did not "cause" anyone to go to jail; the moron reading and acting on that comment did. Have some respect for individuality mate.

I looked at your recent comments - in almost every one of them (!) you are insulting, mocking, being a total jerk to people on here. Please stop doing that. You will be banned very soon if you keep that up. Read the guidelines - most of your comments break more than a few. Thanks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by bink »

harryvederci wrote: post #207
bink wrote: post #94

This thread is mostly full of jokes, and that's cool. But more seriously I'm exactly the kind of person I suppose this is meant to appeal to. I've spent the last 2-3 decades breaking into systems. Many of these systems comprise what the US calls "critical infrastructure". That's pipelines, power generation, transmission, distribution. Air traffic control systems. Government agencies. I'm based in the US. The problem…

> I'm exactly the kind of person I suppose this is meant to appeal to. Quote from the article: > "Ukrainian cybercommunity! It's time to get involved in the cyber defense of our country," the post read, asking hackers and cybersecurity experts to submit an application via Google docs, listing their specialties, such as malware development, and professional references. If you're not Ukrainian, I guess the request is n…

That's a very important clarification. Thank you.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by raxxorrax »

btheshoe wrote: post #44
awb wrote: post #4

Anonymous is supposedly joining the cyber war: https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1496954233492541444 https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1496965766435926039 They are claiming responsibility for taking down RT.com and some other Russian sites.

isn't anonymous just a loose affiliation of people on 4chan though? Kind of strange to claim that the whole collective is doing something.

Not necessarily 4chan, but yes. Its name can and has been claimed by different groups.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by randomsearch »

TheFreim wrote: post #59
lalaland1125 wrote: post #56

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rt.com seems down from my perspective DDoSes are simple tools, but they can be extremely effective at stopping Russian propaganda mills.

I am not familiar with RT, what "propaganda" were they spreading? I've known of "rt.com" for a while, seeing it posted occasionally, and it never was anything that gave me pause (didn't even known it stood for Russia Today until today).

Yesterday they were describing how Ukraine is shelling around Russian schools…

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by okprod »

eps wrote: post #250
simne wrote: post #50

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Thank You for answer. What I see now, kremlin for sure have not prepared for long term war campaign, they just have not built hospitals for wounded (thanks to western sat photos, provided by official sources), and this is extremely important, because in real war, 80% wounded die within 24h if have not received medical care in nearest 1-2 hours. And if will be resistance, attacking forces will have very large number o…

> they just have not built hospitals Didn't Biden explicitly say yesterday that they were preparing for the war and in fact built field hospitals, brought blood supplies, etc.?

He did and said something to the effect of "we know what that means".

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Post by raxxorrax »

HWR_14 wrote: post #138
charles_f wrote: post #92

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That would cut off the libgen though, so I'm against that.

In the case of a hot war involving hundreds of thousands of troops and the 4th vs 7th largest militaries, maybe free access to papers isn't the most pressing issue.

Keeping as much communications channels open is of severe strategic interest. Transparency is a weapon of democracy. In the age of information media images can help in a war and cutting off any lines would only solidify the grasp of domestic propaganda for everyone.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by maury91 »

Currently Russia is suppressing all the civil protests against war in their own country, and they go as far to make people go to jail for just tweeting about it.

If it will be possible to use hacking or similar techniques to generate noise so:

1. Who wants to protest is harder to detect online ( i.e. can be arrested only once in square actually protesting )

2. The information about Russians protesting against war spreads to how many Russians as possible, so every person that wants to join will know and will can

I believe protests in Russia can help resolving this situation.

Unfortunately I don't have any knowledge on how to help with this possible plan, but in this thread there're people with that knowledge

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by MarcellusDrum »

randomsearch wrote: post #251
MarcellusDrum wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phrase "the free world" rubs me the wrong way. I'm obviously against what Russia is doing, any sane man would be. But as a middle eastern, the US to us has been 10x worse than Russia: They killed a million Iraqis, they killed Syrian civilians by bombing hospitals and schools. They overthrew a functional government in Libya, and they supported Syrian/Iraqi separatists (Kurds). They forcefully tried to build a mili…

If you think the US has been worse for the Syrians than Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of its cities, I cannot take the rest of your argument seriously.

The US overall has been worse to the Middle East overall than Russia is my argument. You knew that, of course, but you chose the vaguest claim in my argument, and ignored the rest which are also valid just to make yourself feel better. Which is fine, of course.
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