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

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Post by frumplestlatz »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #206
bapak wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did they raid you?

Short version: Possibly the worst thing to be raided for: distribution of CSAM. Apparently based purely on the 'evidence' of my IP address being on some list - that's the only explanation I ever got. Funny thing is, they did so little background research they didn't even know to expect kids in the house when they raided at 6:30am. It still triggers me. This was in August 2022. I wrote pages and pages of my memories a…

> It still triggers me. This was in August 2022. I wrote pages and pages of my memories and thoughts about it, and it still makes me angry for about ten different reasons.

As someone who was arrested in his PJs at 4am due to a false accusation that the police did not investigate and for which they did not have probable cause, I feel this in my bones.

$15k in legal fees, a day in jail, and three months later, the charges were dropped because, as per the DA, “we cannot in good conscience pursue this case”.

No consequences for the person who made the false accusation, or the officer that enacted an arrest without probable cause.

My heart still skips a beat whenever I think I hear a knock at the door or noises in the middle of the night. I’ll wake up from a dead sleep in a panic. In theory I could pursue a lawsuit against both the accuser and officer, but that feels overwhelming — I’ve just tried to move on.

It completely changed the way I see the police and the criminal justice system. The process is, in of itself, punishment.

I was fortunate enough to be able to afford good legal representation, and I now have a great deal of empathy for those who are railroaded by the system because they cannot.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

sofixa wrote: post #78
v5v3 wrote: post #51

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Russians and foreigners travelling to Russia regularly blog live. Everyone there is doing fine. The world order is changing to a level you won't believe - Russia, Venezuela were reported by WSJ or similar to even be running journalist schools in Africa to break the media control there by western media brands.

> Everyone there is doing fine. As long as they don't say anything critical against the regime. Or have the misfortune of flying in/around Russia while morons are at the trigger of surface to air missiles (cf. MH17 and Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243). Or have the misfortune of getting conscripted to die in the meat grinder. > The world order is changing to a level you won't believe - Russia, Venezuela were reported…

> Or have the misfortune of flying in/around Russia while morons are at the trigger of surface to air missiles (cf. MH17 and Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243)

Chances for a civilian to die from war causes and gun violence combined in Russia are currently significantly lower than chances for American to die from gun violence.

> Or have the misfortune of getting conscripted to die in the meat grinder.

Russia is currently recruiting contractors among conscripts and criminals. It’s not impossible to be sent to war illegally, but significant majority went there willingly (I have no idea why idiots arrested for drug possession choose to go to meat grinder, but they do it).

Overall, in most places there it’s safe enough to think about something else than how not to be killed. People are really doing fine (when internet works - it’s been shitty recently for air defense reasons).

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

dragonwriter wrote: post #407
ivan_gammel wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are exaggerating Russian problems quite a bit. It’s certainly more stable than in 1990s or early 2000s. The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto (Crimea may get formal recognition). Even if they won’t, there’s no plausible scenario in which Russia will lose this territory. Demographics — yes, but immigration may solve it for a wh…

> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto What peace deal?

There will be one at some point. There is no plausible scenario in which it will be favorable for Ukraine: the West missed the moment to build up military production to match and surpass Russian capacity, so there is zero chance that there will be any military wins. And sanctions don’t work, that should have been pretty clear by now to anyone who sees the numbers. It is all about damage control and how many Ukrainians will have to die before Western politicians will accept inevitable.

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Post by dragonwriter »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #413
dragonwriter wrote: post #407

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> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto What peace deal?

There will be one at some point. There is no plausible scenario in which it will be favorable for Ukraine: the West missed the moment to build up military production to match and surpass Russian capacity, so there is zero chance that there will be any military wins. And sanctions don’t work, that should have been pretty clear by now to anyone who sees the numbers. It is all about damage control and how many Ukrainian…

> There will be one at some point.

Even if that's true, the content you assume will be in it (even before considering the probability of your predicted content being wrong) may have as much bearing for Russia (or any othe nation’s) near term prospects as the eventual content of the peace deals ending the Israeli-Palestinian war or the US-North Korea war have on any nation’s near-term prospects.

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Post by libertine »

yurish wrote: post #312
libertine wrote: post #274

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What does it mean in the current Russian political environment? > The term Little Russia is now anachronistic when used to refer to the country Ukraine and the modern Ukrainian nation, its language, culture, etc. Such usage is typically perceived as conveying an imperialist view that the Ukrainian territory and people ("Little Russians") belong to "one, indivisible Russia".Today, many Ukrainians consider the term dis…

So "The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians"." it is? And this follows from the link? Have you read it? Really? The term Малороссия now days is outdated indeed, as wiki says. This term was first introduced not even by Russia but by Byzantine Church and word "мало" ("little" as you "translate" here) means "original" "primordial…

You still failed to address the question: "little russians", "kholkhols" are ethnic slurs being used by Russian nationalists as terms of endearment?

> It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses.

So not because Russians are in their land trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible, terrorizing them, and destroying their culture? It's all because of propaganda?

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Post by libertine »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #403
libertine wrote: post #266

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> Higher energy prices, and increased defence spending Energy prices are going down, and have been going down consistently ( https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil ) and the new US Admin wants them even lower, and they're not alone. So that's settled. Defense spending will also be met with investment, jobs, etc. But if you think Europe is having it bad in terms of using taxpayers money to fund wars... what…

I think you are exaggerating Russian problems quite a bit. It’s certainly more stable than in 1990s or early 2000s. The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto (Crimea may get formal recognition). Even if they won’t, there’s no plausible scenario in which Russia will lose this territory. Demographics — yes, but immigration may solve it for a wh…

> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto

Who is forcing it, Russia? lmao

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

dragonwriter wrote: post #414
ivan_gammel wrote: post #413

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There will be one at some point. There is no plausible scenario in which it will be favorable for Ukraine: the West missed the moment to build up military production to match and surpass Russian capacity, so there is zero chance that there will be any military wins. And sanctions don’t work, that should have been pretty clear by now to anyone who sees the numbers. It is all about damage control and how many Ukrainian…

> There will be one at some point. Even if that's true, the content you assume will be in it (even before considering the probability of your predicted content being wrong) may have as much bearing for Russia (or any othe nation’s) near term prospects as the eventual content of the peace deals ending the Israeli-Palestinian war or the US-North Korea war have on any nation’s near-term prospects.

Russia can sustain this war for 4 years more politically (they probably have to finish by 2029, a year before elections), maybe 2-3 years more militarily and economically. I won’t be so sure that Ukraine can last that long, because Ukraine does have people problem and Russia does not. Ukraine even with Western supplies gets a fraction of what Russia currently produces in ammo, missiles, tanks etc. So there is no reason for Russia to accept shitty terms. They may pay 200-300B from the frozen money in „reconstruction support“, but that’s it.

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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

libertine wrote: post #416
ivan_gammel wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are exaggerating Russian problems quite a bit. It’s certainly more stable than in 1990s or early 2000s. The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto (Crimea may get formal recognition). Even if they won’t, there’s no plausible scenario in which Russia will lose this territory. Demographics — yes, but immigration may solve it for a wh…

> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto Who is forcing it, Russia? lmao

There’s no one else to force anything in that deal.

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

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Post by boznz »

rclkrtrzckr wrote: post #276

I am working for a medium sized Swiss company. We're coding our own ERP, based on a nightmare of a stack. We call it "security by confusion". An attacker would maybe find its way in, but he'll never find the way out. If he destroys 90% of our code, we'll still be up and running, because 95% of the codebase is obsolete.

Have coded a couple of full MRP systems for various large companies based on my own model and I would be intrigued to see how this will work. I usually include the default recommended security and DR practices and then add my own OTP-hash based layer for key authorisations. I thought I was paranoid, but your system sounds more like an end-of-the-world scenario rather than just keep the production-line going in the factory.

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

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Post by BobaFloutist »

ajross wrote: post #196
amelius wrote: post #56

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I mean Putin will spin everything as "the West did it" anyway, so it really does not matter who pushes that button. I also seriously wonder why we don't have US/NATO air forces over Ukraine for this reason.

Because footage of a downed F-22 and it's captive pilot would be an unspeakable PR disaster relative to the comparatively mild military benefit. Wars aren't, and really never have been, won by blowing stuff up.

I don't know that the electorate that twice elected the man that said "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, okay?" would actually be all that bothered.
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