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Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by SoftTalker »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #270
bluGill wrote: post #263

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In the 1990s mainframes got so stable and redundant that some were not rebooted in over a decade - they could even upgrade the kernel without rebooting. Then one company had a power failure andthe backup generators failed. When the power came back it was months before they figured out everything it was doing and then how to start that service where the guy who started it originally quit years ago. most companies star…

I was very supportive of the infrastructure IT team when they moved their datacenter. I also had popcorn when watching the switch being figuratively flipped on. It went surprisingly well despite having stayed 15 years in the old DC without rebooting. They were super scared of exactly the case you described but except for some minor issues (and a lot of cussing) it was OK.

The data center where I work self-tests this stuff unintentionally a couple of times a year. The typical case: UPS maintenance, room is put on bypass, load drops when switching back.

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Post by ulrikrasmussen »

Muromec wrote: post #229
725686 wrote: post #225

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In the USA? Where you can be sued if someone slips on your sidewalk? Can't you sue the gvmt?

Why would you be able to sue the government for conducting a search authorized by a judge? It's expected that result of some searches is "Oopsie doopsie nothing found".

I think it's fair to expect that the authorities must have a very good probable cause to perform a search of your home, and that any search that turned out to be unwarranted results in a big compensation and a public announcement stating that the specific police department and judge violated the right to privacy.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by cosmicgadget »

93po wrote: post #238

The source of this news is the Ukrainian military which seems to exaggerate and spread propaganda (as does every other country of course). I don't know why we accept this information as reliable.

You don't have to. In fact, your best bet is to wait for Gaskar's response and/or the UA publishing trophies. But the lack of immediate corroboration for a clandestine cyber op doesn't somehow mean it probably didn't happen.

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Post by SoftTalker »

eptcyka wrote: post #121
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

Yeah, I had similar experiences, but now I use nix, which solves these problems.

I don't really know nix, but have used Ansible to try to have all configuration version-controlled and automated. But if there's any possibility of making changes outside of that, you have to be very disciplined. As soon as someone makes a one-off manual change to a crontab or a systemd unit, you're screwed.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by cosmicgadget »

submeta wrote: post #142
wiseowise wrote: post #138

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> It’s a proxy war fought by the US and it‘s vassals (aka allies) and Russia. That’s the spirit, comrade. Remember! When it’s decadent West/NATO, they’re vassals. When it is glorious BRICS, they’re allies. Don’t mix them up! Good luck!

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Here's the wonderful thing: he'll be gone in 3.5 years or less. You're stuck with your guy until he dies because like the people that voted for Trump, you don't mind abject corruption if you get the appearance of strength. The difference is, annexing Greenland is just bluster to distract from the corruption. You guys actually invaded Ukraine and are paying dearly for it.

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Post by simonw »

sitkack wrote: post #259
simonw wrote: post #195

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I use GitHub Issues for this. It works so well - any time I make a decision I drop a comment on the relevant issue (often formatted as "Decision: ..."). Now they are archived, searchable, accessible via API and easy to navigate to from my source code because my commits all reference the issue number that relates to the change.

What do you use for archiving github issues?

I've tried a couple of things. I wrote a tool for exporting them to SQLite: https://github.com/dogsheep/github-to-sqlite

I've also tried a mechanism where I have GitHub Actions write them out as JSON files in the repo itself, then I can git clone them in one go: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0f906759afd17af7ba39a0979027a... and https://github.com/simonw/fetch-github-issues

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by kjkjadksj »

jncfhnb wrote: post #282
Kapura wrote: post #249

Cyber warfare is really reaching a new peak in Ukraine, and not just the more-traditional cyberattacks like this. The target is of note; the drones themselves are the thing that's setting this war apart from all of the primarily human powered wars of the past centuries. Drones have revolutionized reconnaissance, sabotage, and munitions interception. Relative to their material cost, they can be terrifically destructiv…

Remains to be seen if the lessons of this war extend to other possible wars though. It is possible that FPV drones are showing up as so important because Russia is committed to a disgusting meat sluice of fodder to achieve its marginal territory gains. Most countries don’t have the appetite for those kind of losses. Most countries, frankly, don’t have the audacity to set these kinds of war aims. I predict they won’t…

Seems like drone warfare is just democratizing what e.g the US has in capabilities with their precision munitions already, in a perhaps less capable but far cheaper manner. Put it in other words if this was the US directy engaging russia, it would probably be tomahawk missiles or something along those lines just like we’ve seen last few decades, vs a sort of Air Hogs with a bomb.

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Post by brentm »

baby wrote: post #320

What's interesting is that this whole challenge is making Russia stronger. Russia has increased its military industry and its now running full steam. Every attack is giving them an opportunity to harden. All of that is meaningless if it makes Russia stronger and more resilient to embargos and cyber/physical attacks in the long run. For all of this to have meaning it has to have a fall of USSR kind of impact at some p…

Of course but also Ukraine doesn't have the privilege to care about the long term right now. You can't lose the battle today to win the war that you may never live to fight.

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

Kapura wrote: post #249

Cyber warfare is really reaching a new peak in Ukraine, and not just the more-traditional cyberattacks like this. The target is of note; the drones themselves are the thing that's setting this war apart from all of the primarily human powered wars of the past centuries. Drones have revolutionized reconnaissance, sabotage, and munitions interception. Relative to their material cost, they can be terrifically destructiv…

In the book Ministry of the Future, a near-future look at a world dealing with devastating climate change, wars become somewhat obsolete because drones get so good it's always possible to kill someone anywhere in the world. The smallest faction can easily kill the leader of any country. It's an interesting thought. I don't recommend the book, one of those thought experiments with lots of interesting ideas with not enough story.

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Post by submeta »

cosmicgadget wrote: post #335
submeta wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Here's the wonderful thing: he'll be gone in 3.5 years or less. You're stuck with your guy until he dies because like the people that voted for Trump, you don't mind abject corruption if you get the appearance of strength. The difference is, annexing Greenland is just bluster to distract from the corruption. You guys actually invaded Ukraine and are paying dearly for it.

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