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That's a very odd website. Blocked by the Russian government so you get a TLS error, once you get past that, you get the Cloudflare "you are blocked" page, and then you use a VPN and... get the option to read this article in Russian.
Somebody saved it four hours ago.
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…
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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".
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Actually I think this is hard to properly implement. If you're a small shop, really setting up backups with redundancies, writing the documentation, and testing disaster recovery, that's so much more work than people anticipate, and it has implications on all areas of the business, not just IT. So usually it's hard to justify to management why you would put in all that work and slow down operations—which leads to eve…
Indeed. Setting up infrastructure properly and documenting it properly is even more complex than coding, to me. I can go back to code I wrote months or years ago, and assuming I architectured and documented it idiomatically, I takes me only a bit of time to start being able to reason about it effectively. With infrastructure is it a whole different story. Within weeks of not touching it (which happens if it just work…
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This likely keeps normal people from seeing this way better than it keeps away any hackers or bots, as Russian citizens are mostly using DPI circumvention tools. And this was a thing since the first days of the war, it's not something new. >that clearly doesn't change the situation in Russia Giving up is the easiest thing to do. Last time some people did, it was blamed on stereotypes like their "learned helplessness"…
The reality is, civilians cannot change a country's domestic foreign policy - especially in a country like Russia. Revolutions don't work without alignment from power centers like the police, military, judiciary, and a subset of legislators. Hosni Mubarak wasn't overthrown because of protesters in Tahrir Square - he was overthrown because General Sisi decided to ignore shoot-on-sight orders. There's no reason for Ukr…
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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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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 en…
It's fallacious to assume that defenses stop evolving after new weapons come to the fore. Some drones are deployed in anti-drone capacities; the war economics becomes balancing how advanced to make the attack drones vs. how cheap the countermeasures are. In Ukraine we've already seen small drones that are able to damage the wings of much larger and more "technically advanced" platforms. War didn't end the first time…
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In several cases during World War II, the Allies intentionally allowed German attacks to happen (or did not act to prevent them) to avoid revealing that they had cracked German codes, particularly the Enigma cipher.
Actually, I don't think that's known to have ever happened. The Allies protected Ultra intelligence by parallel construction--coming up with other means to 'discover' the same information (principally, sending a reconnaissance flight to the known location of wolf packs). The main claim for this myth is the sacrifice of Coventry during the Battle of Britain, but as far as I'm aware, historians are in general agreement…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz#Coventry_and_Ul...