Country of Georgia Hit By Massive Cyberattack 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A huge cyber-attack has knocked out more than 2,000 websites -- as well as the national TV station -- in the country of Georgia. Court websites containing case materials and personal data have also been attacked. In many cases, website home pages were replaced with an image of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the caption "I'll be back." The origin of the attack is not yet known. BBC Caucasus correspondent Rayhan Demytrie said people on social media were speculating that Russia might be behind it. She added that she had been told by cyber-security experts that Georgian government websites were "poorly protected and vulnerable to attack." More than 15,000 pages were affected, including the presidential website, non-government organizations and private companies.
A mystery for the ages (Score:5, Interesting)
Here in Finland the army trains against an invasion of a foreign power, Since it's in general not smart during peace time to practice warfare against a named enemy, the opposing forces are usually referred to with the codename 'Yellow nation', that for some reason or another tends to always approach from the east, but just as with this story the 'origin of the attack is not known'.
Damn sneaky Yellow nation at it again! One day we shall find out who you are!
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Yellow country started the Winter War. Nazis had an agreement with the Yellow country at the time, which they subsequently broke. Nobody in Finland was marching "with" the Nazis, they just happened to be fighting the same enemy. And whatever you may say about Finlandization, it kept Finland a democratic country. You do approve of democracy, don't you?
I'm a bit confused as to your goals here though. Are you trying to shit on Finland, or give Russia a hand-job?
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Nice demonstration of your lack of historical knowledge. Plenty of democracies have endured and prospered without huge amounts of wealth inequality. The USA is an outlier in that regard. Socialist democracies of Europe get it right, perhaps we could learn from them?
In any case, you've not even attempted to list a better alternative. Nobody is buying the idea of a "benevolent" dictatorship being better, much as the power elites try to push that idea. And Russia illustrates what a craphole a country can becom
Re:A mystery for the ages (Score:5, Insightful)
We did invade yes, after said nation had just previously invaded us and left us with a massively weakened army while the general war was still going. Now I'm sure the Finnish leadership at the time would have much preferred to get help from the West, but see the problem with that is that the Soviets were part of the allies, so that's really a no-go. Basically it was either an alliance with the Germans, or run the risk of being annexed by the Soviets if they choose to attack again, the post winter war army was in no shape to repel another attack by themselves. Like most of Finnish military history, the geopolitics of this place left us between a rock and a hard place.Germans: made the military alliance and aid contingent on us joining them on the invasion, and while there were some officers definitely in the army who were Nazi sympathisers, the man in charge of the whole army, Mannerheim, was not. We never signed the tripartite pact signed by the axis powers, the Jewish population of Finland - including the men serving in the Finnish army - were not taken to camps, and so on.
It was a long shot, because it became quite clear to the Finns even prior to Stalingrad that Germany was going to lose, but it worked: We started to negotiate for peace against Germany's orders , and eventually reached one that caused us to also fight the remaining Nazis in the country to drive them out, making us the only country to fight both the Societs and the Nazis in the 2nd world war. If that doesn't show you that the true goal of the entire wartime plan was to maintain our independence (which we did successfully), I don't know what will. I mean we used the Germans and the promise of getting them out as pawn to secure peace before the Soviets had the time or the opportunity to invade the entire country again.
In the alternative timeline where the alliance with Germany had not been made, there's basically very little preventing the Soviets from attacking Finland after the Germans were broken, and we would have likely become like Poland, just another state of the USSR. So what would you have done? Sit here and hope the Soviets play nice? C'mon man.
Well, since we were never allowed to join any military alliance with the West (as per the peace terms forced by the Soviets) and thus were not in Nato, the threat of Russian military invasion was everpresent even after the war. The soviet union had us sign a treaty on 'friendship and co-operation' [wikipedia.org], which stipulated that they're allowed to moce troops into Finland if they deem the security of the Soviet state to be at risk, and this was basically used as a threat to force compliance on important political issues throughout the cold war.
So absolutely, there was self-censorship by the media and politicians, and there was a lot of backchanneling back and forth, because prior to the collapse of the soviet union, one could not become president of this country without being approved by the Soviets. They had massive influence, both politically and economically being a huge trading partner, but seeing the way things went down for the countries actually invaded by the Soviet union that belonged to the Warsaw pact, the conditions and life in Finland (both economic and political) were still a lot better than those of the full-on soviet satellite nation, and considering the soviets also outright banned us from receiving any of the aid from the Marshall plan, the post-war economy managed to do surprisingly well.
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Fascinating post. Thank you.
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Eh... what? That radio broadcast is from february 1940 during which time we were fighting the soviets by ourselves in the winter war. We managed to stay independent even without the Brits or the Germans at that point and the interim peace [wikipedia.org] started with a peace treaty with the Soviets.
The events I described all happened after that and largely because of the winter war. Since we were now at peace, British priorities shi
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Was that like in 1941 when you invaded the "yellow country" marching shoulder to shoulder with the Nazis? You were all about that, right up until your side's defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Your country literally invented the word "finlandization" which means to bow down to the "yellow country" doing things that they never requested, out of toadying compliance. Most of the Finland's media and political elites shifted their attitudes to match the values that the Soviets were thought to favor and approve. Finland was issuing stamps with Lenin on them, for fuck's sake.
No, it was like 1939 when Yellow Country launched a completely unprovoked invasion of Finland, lost 180.000 men, 500 aircraft and left the Finnish army with 260 captured Yellow Country tanks to add to the 26 they started the war with. Basically, yellow country got it's ass kicked so badly they still have a M38 Finnish army boot stuck up in there somewhere and can't get it out. Yellow Country considers itself entitled to appropriate the land of it's neighbors but they aren't very good soldiers so their incom
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Shhhhhhhh
Let him spread his revisionist propaganda in peace.
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Here in Finland the army trains against an invasion of a foreign power, Since it's in general not smart during peace time to practice warfare against a named enemy, the opposing forces are usually referred to with the codename 'Yellow nation', that for some reason or another tends to always approach from the east, but just as with this story the 'origin of the attack is not known'.
Damn sneaky Yellow nation at it again! One day we shall find out who you are!
I got a kick out if it when Finland that started actualizing the personal data of 900.000 reservists along with a description of that reservist's designated role 'in the event of a war' and then issued a statement that this had nothing **crosses fingers** to do with the ongoing Russian land grabs in the Ukraine.
Country of Georgia? (Score:1)
Lets hope the crackers don't get ideas from that phrase.
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