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

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Post by groby_b »

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.…

If you are professionally responsible for infrastructure, and you haven't thought very hard about the "how do we rebuild from scratch" case, you're committing professional malpractice.

The problem is environments like hospitals, who'll "cost center" their IT department to death, where even the most seasoned pro has no chance to ever do the right thing. There should be liability at the board level. There never will.

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

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Post by JSteph22 »

fer wrote: post #193
v5v3 wrote: post #34

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Russia and all non-usa allies have been the winner. China etc have seen the strategies used in sanctions. They know how to limit their impact now. It's also brought Russia/China/Iran/North Korea and wider Brics together. It's been a disaster for the west. The measure of success was Russia weakened and ideally Putin weakened or gone. And instead Russia have shrugged off the sanctions, and Putin is much stronger. And t…

Russia has been a winner by basically no metric other than land and being a shit neighbor. And even land cost them more in soldiers more than the pre-war population that lived there; it's literally a special grave digging operation. Soviet stockpiles of armor are basically depleted; now it's the buggy and moped meta. They've completely failed to support their supposed allies (i.e. Assad, Iran, Armenia). A good chunk…

>And even land cost them more in soldiers more than the pre-war population that lived there

This is very easily verified as false. It's hard to take the rest of your comments seriously.

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

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Post by wwweston »

bilekas wrote: post #128
v3ss0n wrote: post #111

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Thats why Infra as Code is very very important.

Not really, the OP was already using docker, but even with IAC on a small home lab like this you're going to modify one or two small things manually here and there over the years. Sure it can help, but it's just not a one fix solution people thing. If you want a good test of your IAC, just provisioning a brand new environment first time using only your iac.

The first rule of IAC club is that you do not hand modify your infrastructure.

The second rule of IAC club is that you do not hand modify your infrastructure.

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

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Post by yurish »

libertine wrote: post #415
yurish wrote: post #312

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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…

I addressed you phrase about Russians seen Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group and "proving" this by "they call them "little Russians", please don't shift topics. This is BS. There is no such phrase "little Russians" in Russian language.

Ethnic slurs exists of course. In any language. And "kholkhols" is one of them. As well as word "moskal'" in Ukranian. Do you know what it means? And ethnic slurs are not used in official language, you know. I mean Russian official language.

>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? Yes, just because of propaganda targeted at low educated people. I mean you can hate Russia for starting the war and turn a blind eye to Ukrainians killing Donbass people but hating historical word referring to some lands that now are part of Ukraine? Just because it has "мало" in it? You need combination of propaganda and low intelligence here.

P.S. Not going to continue. This all conversation is just waist of my time.

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

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Post by consumer451 »

93po wrote: post #388
consumer451 wrote: post #366

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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…

it is worth something if it's recognized as a myth by official sources at the time, but it doesn't change that social media (reddit) was absolutely jammed full of stuff about it, presenting it as factual, and has led probably millions of people to believe it was real. and even beyond the posts that were explicitly about it, comment sections continued to refer to it in serious ways. my whole point is there is a concer…

The billionaires appear to be more pro-Russia, as that is where more billions lay.

Look at the oligarch paper of record, the grey lady. Just last week, they claimed that the Western-most, and safest Ukraininian city, Lviv, was too unsafe. They instead chose to embed that reporter with russian troops, in Kursk, and described it as "A Landscape of Death: Where Ukraine invaded."

Look at the comments on this story. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/world/europe/ukraine-russ...

It is insane, and utterly disconnect from reality. Do you know who uses blanket artillery barrages on villages? Russia. Even if Ukraine wanted to do that, they don't have the shells to spare. Russia has a well known documented history of not giving a flying f about the lives of its own people. This was just another example, and NYT laid it on "Where Ukraine invaded."

I honestly have a hard time believing that this is a NYT headline, and story. This is "WMD in Iraq" levels of NYT journalistic malpractice. This is true manipulation. The aggressor is the victim. Up is down. Who cares about Reddit comments. Decision makers read this crap in the NYT!

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

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

mrandish wrote: post #409
biofox wrote: post #298

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That's absolutely horrifying! Glad to hear you've managed to move past it, as it would have absolutely broken me. My home was searched by the police for something much less serious (buying lab equipment, completely legally), and the experience left me having panic attacks every time there was a knock at the door.

It makes me crazy that police in the U.S. nowadays can get a search warrant permitting seizure of large amounts of valuable computer and networking gear along with digital devices certain to massively disrupt anyone's life - only from buying things which are completely legal to buy and possess. Apparently all it takes is "a suspicious pattern of behaviors" to get a judge to issue an expansive warrant. The "suspicious…

And my experience was in Australia, so the "decline of policing" has well and truly reached out shores as well.

To possibly make this even more frustrating, when I was told I could pick up my gear, the detective in charge said that a few things they found flagged as suspicious:

1. I had / used virtual machines

2. I had "Tor" on my computer(s)

3. I had downloaded stuff from Megaupload

Now I'm not entirely sure whether these comments were based on what they found on my seized gear, or whether these were actually sufficient 'red flags' to make them think the warrant was justified initially, but, my god, how completely out of their depth, and therefore totally unqualified, they are to make life-changing adjudications about these things - and that their access to metadata only makes it more likely that they'll make false positive mistakes (which is just terrible for society overall).

I'm literally not sure what they meant by saying "you have tor on your computer", whether there's evidence of my having visited the dark web, or just having a (way outdated) copy of the tor browser saved somewhere.

And I think the only things I'd ever downloaded from Megaupload were Android ROMs.

Regarding Virtual Machines: I can't even... they're obviously non-technical so couldn't possibly understand, and yet... gah, I can't even...

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

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

frumplestlatz wrote: post #411
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #206

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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 char…

I'm only postulating here, but I have a strong suspicion that my ability to get past it as well I have (not perfectly, but I don't have nightmares or break into a sweat when I hear police sirens - although it does remind me almost every time) is because I had to give the impression to my kids that there was nothing to worry about; this is not a big deal; this is not traumatic and will not change the course of your life.

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

One million times this. Even if it's not completely true at it's base, it's true for those unfortunate enough to have experienced this.

One of the funny (?) things about it, is that most of the individual officers were nice enough people, personable (other than one inflammatory officer who should not be employed in a role that comes into contact with people), one even gave the cat a pat. It's the system / systems, and likely the perverse incentives for their monthly stats.

I'm glad I didn't end up needing legal representation.

The way I deal with it is to actively let it go, forgive the situation in my mind, treat it as one of those anomalous circumstances that happen every second on a global scale. Treat it as a reminder of the unpredictability of life and an opportunity to be thankful that it's not my 'normal'.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

frumplestlatz wrote: post #411
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 char…

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

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

sans_souse wrote: post #410
bapak wrote: post #198

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Why did they raid you?

I woulda just left it at "screen name checks out"

Yeah, BLKNSLVR came from "Black and Silver" based on some crappy piece of art I did way long ago. It wasn't until using it as an in-game handle that a friend read it out to me as "Black Enslaver" that I even realised it could read another way.

I don't like that it can be interpreted that way, but I also refuse to stop using it since that's someone else's reading.

The only factor I use to treat one human different from another is whether they're a jerk or not, and I have to know them well enough to work that out. I've come across a few jerks in my time, and they take many and varied forms.

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