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

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Post by tim333 »

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…

It's just a feature of long running wars that both sides boost their military. Russia is stronger in some ways but weaker in others.

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

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Post by dopa42365 »

>GASKAR INTEGRATION

Definitely one of the companies that everyone has heard of before. No need to mention any of their brand or product names, they're that famous.

$3 million revenue in 2024.

I'm sure we'll hear more about the epic defeat of this major military supplier in the future.

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

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Post by kayge »

froh wrote: post #166
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.…

side remark: I like the ambiguity of titanic (giant) task and Titanic (1912) task :-)

Don't forget Titanic (1997)! :D

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

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Post by stavros »

bluGill wrote: post #263
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.…

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…

That's why I delete all my company's data stores every quarter too!

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

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Post by 93po »

consumer451 wrote: post #275
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.

I am genuinely curious, what are the known examples of them exaggerating and spreading propaganda, regarding operations like this?

Ghost of Kyiv was recognized by Ukraine itself as a myth. Snake Island "go fuck yourself" was misrepresented (they were killed vs captured), plenty of others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_...

There's also just endless small stuff (shorts/tiktoks/cam footage) on social media (reddit) that really does not pass the sniff test.

I think what Russia is doing is terrible, I am not defending them at all. I am just allergic to bullshit, and there is plenty of smelly things happening on the Ukrainian side, though of course I recognize the Russians are especially bad in this regard.

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

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Post by consumer451 »

93po wrote: post #365
consumer451 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am genuinely curious, what are the known examples of them exaggerating and spreading propaganda, regarding operations like this?

Ghost of Kyiv was recognized by Ukraine itself as a myth. Snake Island "go fuck yourself" was misrepresented (they were killed vs captured), plenty of others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_... There's also just endless small stuff (shorts/tiktoks/cam footage) on social media (reddit) that really does not pass the sniff test. I think what Russia is doing is terrible, I am not defending th…

The ghost of Kyiv was recognized as a myth at the time of it's spread. The Snake Island story is understandable. Every country makes mistakes about KIA vs. MIA.

I was not very clear, but I meant Ukrainian intelligence services claiming operational success where there was none. It's also interesting that this Wikipedia entry appears devoid of UA false propaganda after 2022. I wonder if they realized that this was not a good Wiki entry on which to appear.

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Post by ac29 »

fragmede wrote: post #330
slightwinder wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Recovering from scratch a whole infrastructure managed by many people over the years is a titanic task. Half of the work is to know what you need, the other half is to know how you do it, while the third half is to cope with all the undocumented tinkering which happened along the way. So in that regard, starting from scratch can be acceptable, as long you are not starting from zero, and can build up on the knowledg…

wait, what games are in that genre?

I think they are talking about roguelikes/roguelites

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

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Post by Faark »

fennecbutt wrote: post #154
trebligdivad wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeh, it would seem in some ways more useful than shutting down the factory; if you gently made all the drones do something, like let them be remote controlled, or bomb the place they were launched from.

But once that happened a handful of times it would be corrected. I suppose it could be used sparingly but Ukraine would have no way of knowing when to use it. Perhaps a Bluetooth or whatever else the drone has on board "keep away" beacon for vips.

There are tones of non-obvious options. Eg make it appear like being shoot-downs. With a bunch of RNG / logic to make it non-obvious... random percentage, only when getting close to target, so many ways...

The real enemy is QA. Don't want it misbehaving during a virtual test flight.

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Post by andrewflnr »

hosh wrote: post #307

The headline of the article called these people cyber activists, and in the text of the article, they were called cybercriminals. Which is it? It reminds me a bit with the situation with privateers during the age of sail. These were often people operating at the edge of the law, or even outright outlaws, given a letter of marque, a license to raid warships and commerce against a specific adversary. I'm sure out on th…

It seems like it might be a translation issue. The site seems pretty overtly pro Ukraine, so they probably don't want to cast these hackers in a negative light. They might have just thought "cyber criminal" was a straight synonym for "hacker".

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Post by paganel »

barbazoo wrote: post #217
paganel wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was trying to follow my respondents' reasoning, as in, if Russia had indeed attacked NATO countries, which they said it had indeed happen, then how come NATO, being a defensive alliance first and foremost, didn't do anything about it? In other words, and following Eastern-European logic (which, trust me, helps in cases like this one, I'm from Eastern Europe myself), had Russia really attacked any NATO countries you…

Thankfully they don’t think it’s worth invoking article 5 over that. It’s not an automatism obviously, we’re talking about WW3 here. Would you rather be “technically” right here?

> Thankfully they don’t think it’s worth invoking article 5 over that

Is there a threshold anywhere in the NATO treaty that I'm unaware of?

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