Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack (dailysecurityreview.com) 85
Longtime Slashdot reader Plugh shares a report from Daily Security Review: A Ukrainian hacker group [...] carried out a destructive attack on the servers of a Moscow-based internet provider to take revenge for Kyivstar cyberattack. The group, known as Blackjack, successfully hacked into the systems of M9com, causing extensive damage by deleting terabytes of data. Numerous residents in Moscow experienced disruptions in their internet and television services. Additionally, the Blackjack hacker group has issued a warning of a potentially larger attack in the near future.
Based on the information provided by Ukrinform, the cyber attack on M9com deleted approximately 20 terabytes of data. The attack targeted various critical services of the company, including its official website, mail server, and cyber protection services. Furthermore, the hackers managed to access and download over 10 gigabytes of data from M9com's mail server and client databases. To make matters worse, they made this stolen information publicly accessible via the Tor browser. [...]
Based on the nature of the attack on M9com, it appears that when the hackers hit Moscow, they were able to gain access to the back-end operations of the company. This allowed them to effectively delete data from the servers, similar to what occurred in the Kyivstar incident. It is worth noting that this type of attack, which involves directly targeting and compromising the servers, is less common compared to the more frequently observed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks overwhelm a system by inundating it with automated requests, causing the service to become inaccessible.
Based on the information provided by Ukrinform, the cyber attack on M9com deleted approximately 20 terabytes of data. The attack targeted various critical services of the company, including its official website, mail server, and cyber protection services. Furthermore, the hackers managed to access and download over 10 gigabytes of data from M9com's mail server and client databases. To make matters worse, they made this stolen information publicly accessible via the Tor browser. [...]
Based on the nature of the attack on M9com, it appears that when the hackers hit Moscow, they were able to gain access to the back-end operations of the company. This allowed them to effectively delete data from the servers, similar to what occurred in the Kyivstar incident. It is worth noting that this type of attack, which involves directly targeting and compromising the servers, is less common compared to the more frequently observed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks overwhelm a system by inundating it with automated requests, causing the service to become inaccessible.
This war will end (Score:1)
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If proper backups were performed, and proper DR policies were in place, this is about a days worth of restoration work to correct.
Tops.
20TB is, as the user below points out, "Not that much" in datacenter terms. On enterprise scale SAN systems, that much data can be handled in just a few hours.
If they *DIDN'T* have proper backups, and proper DR policies were *NOT* in place, well... .... They get to be the poster child for why you need to do those things!
Re:This war will end (Score:5, Insightful)
Quite quick to restore from backups yes, but your backups will also contain the vulnerabilities, backdoors and/or compromised credentials which allowed the attackers to gain access in the first place. You have to be a lot more careful when recovering from a hack or you're just inviting it to happen again.
Re: This war will end (Score:2)
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those aren't *proper* backups then.
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You need a better disaster recovery plan and more practice with it.
If you have 20TB of mission-critical storage and there is no hardware damage, restoring it should take a little over an hour or either your disaster recovery plan is insufficient or that data isn't really mission-critical.
Honestly, you're going to spend more time trying to establish the scope of the damage and how to recover without being immediately re-compromised than you are actually executing the recovery.
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restoring it should take a little over an hour
No one here is backing up 20TB onto an SSD. I agree it won't take weeks, but your estimate is as wildly off as the grandparent's in the opposite direction. You're looking at over 100 hours of continuous max transfer speed of an LTO-9 tape, to say nothing of the fact that a backup isn't as simple as saying "welp" and reaching for a tape and hitting play.
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If you're talking about 'tape', you have no idea what you're talking about in a modern data centre. I, on the other hand, have actual recent practical experience in data centres.
You can choose to not believe that, but if you expect me to believe you have any idea what you're talking about, you're going to have to keep expecting because I know you're full of shit.
Re: This war will end (Score:2)
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If you're talking about 'tape', you have no idea what you're talking about in a modern data centre. I, on the other hand, have actual recent practical experience in data centres.
Tape libraries are still widely used in the enterprise. You should not consider your data center experience to be representative of all of them.
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If you're talking about 'tape', you have no idea what you're talking about in a modern data centre.
Tape is still the standard for backup. No one here is talking about a datacentre. They are talking about 20TB. I have 20TB at home. In my basement. If you think 20TB qualifies you for a datacentre it is *you* who doesn't know what you're talking about.
In any case the point is the same. You're going to spend far more than a couple of hours just doing investigation and forensics before you even begin recovery. This will not be resolved in a day. Not remotely. Probably not a week, but saying "a little over an
Re: This war will end (Score:2)
Then you are clearly not using a COW based file system, have no idea what a snapshot is, have no idea how Disaster Recovery sites/policies work, or how to effectively use those tools.
A proper backup contains the full snapshot history and metadata of your storage array. It should be possible to restore not only the last blessed state of the array, but any other snapshotted state of the array, arbitrarily, if you have a proper backup plan in place.
A proper disaster recovery implementation allows for 'immediat
Re: This war will end (Score:2)
Damn slashdot mobile BS, replied to the wrong subthread. Sigh.
Quite correct about the proper backup containing the vulns.
This is why it takes a full day, and not 'just a few hours'.
Baseline procedure is to force recredentialling of all accounts, while obeying rules to prevent password re-use. If a technical exploit against a service was used, siloing the service, or disabling it until it can be fixed by an upstream vendor (hah!) Is required.
The latter has been known to take years to resolve.
However, siloing
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Then you are clearly not using a COW based file system, have no idea what a snapshot is, have no idea how Disaster Recovery sites/policies work, or how to effectively use those tools.
When your fancy storage array is compromised along with all the backups across all of your remote sites because everything was online and the attacker "moved laterally" compromising all of the operator accounts and all of the systems what then? I see lots of high profile ransomware payouts from people who likely believed they had competent backups in place.
This is HOW you get nine 9s of uptime reliability, and assurances of data integrity.
This very well may be a way of recovering from hardware and software failures. It may be completely meaningless against deliberate sabotage.
At worst, your virtual servers should complain about not being shut down correctly.
At worst th
so little? (Score:1)
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It is important to note that this is an ISP, and not a digital data warehousing operation, like say WordPress or Google or Amazon Web Services (Or Mega, or any other such large datacenter operation).
Customer information, and internal email operations data is not that big, in the greater scheme of things.
Additionally, if there is thin provisioning going on for things like virtual servers, or disk deduplication going on, then 20TB of unique data could be quite a bit more then "as seen by outside observers".
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Please grammar check. Please?
In this sentence, "revenge" is not a noun."
You used to do better.
That is the literal first sentence of the linked article. It's not the editors on here, but of Daily Security Review. The word 'the' is missing after the word 'for'. The corrected sentence should read:
A Ukrainian hacker group [...] carried out a destructive attack on the servers of a Moscow-based internet provider to take revenge for the Kyivstar cyberattack.
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"Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack"
"a" revenge?
That is also the title of the original article. Again, not the editors here, but from Daily Security News.
More or less minor vandalism (Score:2)
In terms of the war effort, rather than a big public splash of "we made them recover from backups", you want to exfiltrate that data and dig through it for anything useful. You never know, maybe someone who uses that ISP could be a useful tool if blackmailed.
Beyond that, rather than delete data, corrupting it to cause chaos would better. Introduce a bug to their billing system to piss off customers. Insert faked kompromat into their personal data, then anonymously tip off the authorities.
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One unintended but not unexpected consequence of the war is both Ukrainians and Russians will end up being battle hardened, not just skilled above the West in kinetic, electronic and cyber warfare, but also less casualty averse. The West may end up having an enemy that is stronger than before the war.
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>both Ukrainians and Russians will end up being battle hardened, not just skilled above the West in kinetic, electronic and cyber warfare, but also less casualty averse.
Ukraine is having internal issues with recruitment, draft resistance, and draft dodging. They may want to defend their nation against an unprovoked invader, but they're also human beings and most of them just want to survive even if it means fleeing and letting the invader win. Since the government is trying to walk the line on those is
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Fascists who dream of wielding power like Putin does in Russia are the problem.
In the US, support is hamstrung by the Republicans. In the EU Hungary and Bulgaria seem to think Russia loves them and would never hurt them again and they're doing whatever they can to impair EU support for Ukraine.
Half the US and pretty much the rest of the West supports Ukraine. Russia is now using non-military means to attack Finland (they're funnelling refugees to the border to cause a border crisis). I think there's a big
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Yeah, OK, edgelord or whatever you're trying to pose as.
Truth is you're just an asshole rooting for other assholes to hurt people.
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LOL. You're some kind of idiot? Or just a garden variety troll?
Russia 100% bought this on itself.
Only idiots, trolls or Russian propagandists would claim otherwise.
Which are you?
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LOL. You're some kind of idiot? Or just a garden variety troll?
Russia 100% bought this on itself.
Only idiots, trolls or Russian propagandists would claim otherwise.
Which are you?
I'll guess that he's alive and most of your propagandists are dead.
Odds are, eventually he'll still be alive and all of your mob will be dead.
Re:More or less minor vandalism (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me tell you my position so you don't have to double guess: I absolutely want Russia to defeat the West at their own game, and at the same time I grieve that Ukrainians are paying the price for it.
Gotcha.
Now let me tell you where you are wrong: you talk about Putin being a "fascist" -- I wouldn't be surprised if you call Republicans that -- and at the same time think Russian "oppressed minorities" are going to rise. It is exactly all those minorities why Russia needs a dictator like Putin: so it doesn't fall apart. Which is why Putin is popular in Russia.
Russia is a land empire that rules a bunch of non-ethnic Russian territories, it's pretty obvious that Putin can't go full ethno-state.
But make no mistake, Russia is pretty fascist. At it's core fascism is basically the idea that every individual in the nation needs to be united behind the goals of the nations. Every labourer, every manager, every parent and child, all working together to build the nation. If that idea doesn't sound attractive you need to give it another look. Fascism didn't become popular because people like marching, it appeals to some very basic ideas around building a strong community.
That's what makes Fascism right wing, because Conservatives do want strong communities without disruptive elements, and Fascism is the most extreme version of that. Get tripped up on whether it's left or right wing economic policy because it doesn't really matter. If everyone's duty is to serve the nation does it matter if the power company is publicly or privately owned?
So yeah, Russia is a fascist state where you can't even call the war a war and it's fine to throw away people's lives in human wave assaults in a war of conquest.
There are worse things that can happen to a country than being lead by a dictator, as Libya can confirm -- thanks to the failed presidential candidate Hilllary Clinton.
And why do I want Putin to defeat the West? Consider:
- Russia says, we're going to fuck up Ukraine so NATO doesn't cross our border.
Russia lies, quite transparently.
NATO is a defensive alliance, what possible motive would they have for crossing Russia's borders?
Russia has one big concern with NATO. It contains former USSR members who joined because they were concerned that Russia was going to invade them, and Russia wants NATO broken up so it can invade those countries like it did Ukraine.
Putin is trying to frame the war against Ukraine as a war against NATO because he's hoping to make it look ineffective so it comes apart and he can go after those former USSR members later.
The truth is exposed by the fact that Russia basically shrugged when Sweden and Finland joined NATO. If they were worried about NATO on their borders don't you think they would have reacted to NATO on their borders? Russia didn't care because Sweden and Finland weren't former USSR, so he wasn't really interested in conquering them.
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> If they were worried about NATO on their borders don't you think they would have reacted to NATO on their borders?
Geography. Once NATO -- or, once, Hitler -- is in what was Ukraine before the Russian invasion, there is nothing to protect Russia from the enemy rolling into Moscow, which the episode with Prigozhin, if you remember, illustrated all too well.
> NATO is a defensive alliance, what possible motive would they have for crossing Russia's borders?
Hoping that your enemy won't have a reason to at
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> If they were worried about NATO on their borders don't you think they would have reacted to NATO on their borders?
Geography. Once NATO -- or, once, Hitler -- is in what was Ukraine before the Russian invasion, there is nothing to protect Russia from the enemy rolling into Moscow, which the episode with Prigozhin, if you remember, illustrated all too well.
You mean Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, the actual neo-Nazi [wikipedia.org]?
Oh, and remember those instances where a handful of 'free Russia' fighters went over the border and seized some villages in the middle of the war.
Doesn't that strike you as odd that they were able to do that? It's almost like on the portions of the Russia/Ukraine border where Russia isn't launching an offensive they don't post any troops because even at a time of literal war they're absolutely unconcerned about the possibility of Ukraine invading Russ
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You're just confirming my point. As a nation, you don't have the luxury of assuming the worst won't happen. Ukraine stupidly believed American assurances. My best bet is the Biden admin with Victoria Nuland as the undersecretary of state, 7 years after the US-sponsored coup against the then pro-Russian president, gave Ukraine authorities the green light to go ahead and occupy the Eastern provinces, and guaranteed some protection in return. ... which the Ukraine neo-Nazis possibly used to push Zelensky into
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You're just confirming my point. As a nation, you don't have the luxury of assuming the worst won't happen. Ukraine stupidly believed American assurances.
American assurances? Russia is the one who broke their promise not to invade.
My best bet is the Biden admin with Victoria Nuland as the undersecretary of state, 7 years after the US-sponsored coup against the then pro-Russian president
Ah yeah, this stale stinking pile of BS. You're so sad that Ukrainians threw out your incompetent pro-Russian wannaba dictator that is has to be a US coup. No way those simple Ukrainians could have actually decided to throw the guy out on their own.
gave Ukraine authorities the green light to go ahead and occupy the Eastern provinces,
You mean Ukrainian territory?
and guaranteed some protection in return. ... which the Ukraine neo-Nazis possibly used to push Zelensky into doing,
Yeah... Jews and Neo-Nazis, naturally allies there.
because coups have consequences: the neo Nazis got into significant power in 2014. I saw a video of one of them boasting of their role in the coup, "without us, the whole protest would have turned into a gay parade".
Here's a piece of advice, don't take neo-Nazis at their word. Ukrainians did any they invaded Crimea.
So when America says, you can go, the neo Nazis tell Zelensky you must go.
What
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Ukraine stupidly believed American assurances. My best bet is the Biden admin with Victoria Nuland as the undersecretary of state, 7 years after the US-sponsored coup against the then pro-Russian president, gave Ukraine authorities the green light to go ahead and occupy the Eastern provinces, and guaranteed some protection in return.
The Maidan revolution was an organic protest in which Putlers puppet lost his legitimacy after his own party left him and he fled in disgrace to Ruzzia like the cowardly piece of shit he is. There was no coup, no military takeover. The Ukranian Rada voted 328 to motherfucking 0 to get rid of that motherfucker by invoking the equivalent of our 25th amendment.
Anyone speaking of US-sponsored coups is parroting mindless Russian propaganda completely disconnected from reality.
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"Except the pro-Russian faction of the GOP doesn't want any more support for Ukraine."
Is this what this is all about to you? Trump? You still think Putin got him elected?
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"Except the pro-Russian faction of the GOP doesn't want any more support for Ukraine."
Is this what this is all about to you? Trump? You still think Putin got him elected?
Everyone thinks Putin helped Trump get elected.
The problem is that Trump and portions of the GOP see Putin as an ally as a result (just like Orban in Hungary).
Either way, that's not what it's about to me. Personally, I'm more worried for my friend in Ukraine whose city is being bombed on a regular basis and who will likely have to flee the country if Russia wins.
So yeah, when people like you cheer on Russia as they try to murder my friend and her young child.... well lets just say I have strong negative fee
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> Everyone thinks Putin helped Trump get elected."
Only fools do. Even the Washington Post doesn't:
"The Russians didn't swing the 2016 election to Trump. But Fox News might have." (Oct 2018).
> when people like you cheer on Russia as they try to murder my friend and her young child
First, I have said explicitly that I grieve for Ukrainians and their suffering at Russian hands for agreeing to be American pawns. And second, when you have to resort to "you are cheering the murders of children", you've lost
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> Everyone thinks Putin helped Trump get elected."
Only fools do. Even the Washington Post doesn't:
"The Russians didn't swing the 2016 election to Trump. But Fox News might have." (Oct 2018).
"Helped" != "Swing"
Whether Russian interference was the tipping point is debatable, but Russia certainly helped.
> when people like you cheer on Russia as they try to murder my friend and her young child
First, I have said explicitly that I grieve for Ukrainians and their suffering at Russian hands for agreeing to be American pawns.
Yeah, I think you're full of s**t.
If you actually cared about Ukrainians you'd give them the weapons they needed to defend themselves. It's well known what a Russian victory means [wikipedia.org].
And second, when you have to resort to "you are cheering the murders of children", you've lost the argument.
You claimed I cared about this because of US political beefs (I'm not even American).
I care about this because a Russian victory is a horrific thing for the humans involved.
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> Whether Russian interference was the tipping point is debatable, but Russia certainly helped.
Ah so that's the goal post now. Fine, but if you ever wrote a single anti Trump comment in any public forum, you also "helped" Hillary. That means nothing.
> If you actually cared about Ukrainians you'd give them the weapons they needed to defend themselves.
I want the war to end and the Russians to keep the occupied territories, thus defeating the West and having that layer of protection from NATO. The latter
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I want the war to end and the Russians to keep the occupied territories, thus defeating the West and having that layer of protection from NATO. The latter will happen anyway, the former may keep going as long as Ukrainians keep getting weapons, and guess who's getting the shorter end of the stick?
And before you say it, I care about the lives of Ukrainian people. I don't care one bit about their country's territorial integrity.
I'd say you don't have a clue about what really goes on in those occupied territories, but I suspect you do and just don't care.
Not that you care either: you are only willing to fight to the last Ukrainian while pretending you care for them under the excuse of fearing for your one friend while you really only serve your ideology. You are a hypocrite.
I can imagine you in WWII. "This liberation of Europe will just result in the deaths of a lot of European civilians. We should really just let Hitler keep Europe out of concern for human life".
Why don't you let Ukrainians decide if they're willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives to save their country? At least you're giving them a choice not afforded to Russians [newsweek.com].
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I want the war to end and the Russians to keep the occupied territories, thus defeating the West and having that layer of protection from NATO.
I want Russians to go back to their own shithole of a country. NATO is only expanding thanks to Putler's idiotic imperial invasion.
The latter will happen anyway, the former may keep going as long as Ukrainians keep getting weapons, and guess who's getting the shorter end of the stick?
The Russians are getting their asses handed to them. 350k dead Russians. A huge portion of their soviet stockpile is in ruins. Mighty Russia has to beg motherfucking Iran and North Korea to make up the losses because their industrial base is shit.
Russia is an oil cursed shithole with delusions of grandeur and a laughing stock of a military. Nobody cares about Russia nor inv
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> Whether Russian interference was the tipping point is debatable, but Russia certainly helped.
Ah so that's the goal post now.
That's not the definition of MTGP. He set the "goalpost" with his first statement.
"Everyone thinks Putin helped Trump get elected."
Whether the opinion is correct or not, the post was not moved.
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Russian propagandists sure are getting dumber and dumber.
They can afford to be dumb, dumber, even dumbest, as long as they're alive.
Your mob are just as stupid but dead.
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Russia didn't care because Sweden and Finland weren't former USSR, so he wasn't really interested in conquering them.
You might want to talk to some Finn's and read some history books. Putin is interested in more than the USSR he wants to reinstate the Russian Empire which includes Finland and large swathes of eastern Poland.
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Russia didn't care because Sweden and Finland weren't former USSR, so he wasn't really interested in conquering them.
You might want to talk to some Finn's and read some history books. Putin is interested in more than the USSR he wants to reinstate the Russian Empire which includes Finland and large swathes of eastern Poland.
Finland was governed by the Russian empire but they never had much success in Russifying it. Putin is a bit fascist in the way that he sees all the Slavic peoples as Russians in denial, so the Slavic nations and places with lots of Russia speakers need to worry, but I don't see him caring too much about Finland.
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And yet WSJ declared Putin a "winner" of 2023. They probably don't posses that kind of geopolitical clarity though.
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What an epic delusion it has to be to declare half the country controlled by "A foreign enemy state(or two...)".
Or rather, what an epic derangement syndrome it is. Knowing that Trump runs again and is leading in the polls, it can easily cause the afficted person's nervous system to be fried completely even before the election takes place.
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> The only questions are how many Ukrainians die first, if they sacrifice territory for temporary peace, and if they recover that territory after the Russian collapse.
From a different perspective, you might also find this interesting :
"How NATO Undermined a Peace Agreement in Ukraine - Ukrainians are beginning to understand that the ongoing destruction of their country was not necessary." https://www.truthdig.com/artic... [truthdig.com]
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Russia's made it very clear that 'peace' means they take over Ukraine and Ukrainians cease to exist as a people.
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> Russia's made it very clear that 'peace' means they take over Ukraine and Ukrainians cease to exist as a people.
Oh I don't know about that. I try to avoid typical portrayals, more or less as a rule.
I just thought you might find that link interesting; even though it uses some over generalizations.
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>Oh I don't know about that.
So... head in the sand, then. Further discussion would be pointless.
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> Russia's made it very clear that 'peace' means they take over Ukraine and Ukrainians cease to exist as a people.
>> Oh I don't know about that. I try to avoid typical portrayals, more or less as a rule.
>>> So... head in the sand, then. Further discussion would be pointless.
I meant I don't like sweeping statements of the kind you made because it looks like you're trying to avoid discussion by making unsupported and polarizing claims.
But if you're not trying to do that, I don't see how that
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So you may not know, but the Ukrainians sure as hell do. That is a reason they are fighting so hard and know that 'peace' talks are just another Russian lie that would literally, not figuratively, take their life.
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> History says you are wrong ...
Not sure who you're talking to, I think you might have replied to the wrong comment. Anyway...
> 'peace' talks are just another Russian lie that would literally, not figuratively, take their life.
For what it's worth I disagree. Did you read the article I linked to on what the author thinks is behind the current fighting in the Dombas region and more generally the conflict since 2014 ?
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> Russia's made it very clear that 'peace' means they take over Ukraine and Ukrainians cease to exist as a people.
Many ethnic Russians have origins in Ukraine, and often some relatives there. I also have never seen Russians talking bad about Ukrainians as people.
I would even guess that Russians have a much better opinion of Ukrainians as people than you do. Ukrainians just serve your ideology, that at its root may be something as banal as being anti Trump.
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However the average Russian has no say in the running of the country, it is not a democracy. The elite, with Putin at the head, who run the country, and they see Ukraine as
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Russia is not a democracy, has not been a democracy for one year in its entire existence. When it got closer to it, it nearly fell apart. Democracy in the Western sense doesn't work for everyone.
That said, I agree with the division between the elite and the people, I just think Russians are more tolerant to it, as long as the elites do not step out of line too much.
"Holding an option on Ukraine has nothing to do with that moron Trump you have in the USA."
You have no idea how much it bothers them, those in t
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"How NATO Undermined a Peace Agreement in Ukraine - Ukrainians are beginning to understand that the ongoing destruction of their country was not necessary." https://www.truthdig.com/artic [truthdig.com]...
It's like China invading the US, taking Texas and most of the eastern seaboard. Next **8 years later** China decides to wage a final campaign to take control of the entire country that fails spectacularly and is replete with graphic evidence of widespread war crimes against civilians.
After all of this China offers a peace deal to avoid further bloodshed. Let us keep what we stole and give us time to regroup our forces while you demilitarize and promise not to join any defensive blocks and we cross our h
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> All of this blabber about NATO when Ukraine was in no danger of joining NATO in the first place is just sad Russian propaganda. You need to lose your brain before any of it makes any goddamn sense.
The article was about how the US has made it impossible for a peace agreement to end the war. One of the main reasons in the article was that many negotiators reported that the US refused to accept an agreement if there was a clause that Ukraine agreed to not join NATO.
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Russia will have many hundreds of thousands of battle hardened veteran troops, but for Ukraine they're either dead or disabled. They've lost half a million troops while Russia has lost a fraction that number. Russia has nearly 150 million people; Ukraine is down to around 20 million after millions fled. Average age of a Ukrainian soldier is into their 40's.
Math was never going to work out in Ukraine's favor, anymore than it has for the Kurds. who for some reason keep letting the US talk them into Pickett's
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20 years ago you would have been calling anyone questioning the Iraq war a "Saddam lover".
SSDD
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This may well be true, but it doesn't hurt affording them that grace, which they deserved. I imagine the Russians think the same of them.
They'll never have love for Russians, but I wonder if they'll think the West has played them. I suspect deep down they know the West sees THEM deep down as no better than the filthy Russians.
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One unintended but not unexpected consequence of the war is both Ukrainians and Russians will end up being battle hardened, not just skilled above the West in kinetic, electronic and cyber warfare, but also less casualty averse. The West may end up having an enemy that is stronger than before the war.
Russia is already using human wave attacks, sending troops at the enemy and shooting them if they retreat [newsweek.com].
That's not the pressures of war, that's just a government that doesn't give a damn about human life.
And it's a government that certain elements in the US seem to be cheering for.
Re: Publicly accessible via the Tor browser? (Score:2)
Cos the data is hosted on an .onion domain, presumably.
So you need to go over tor, and have 3 options for that. Either use torbrowser which has a built-in tor instance, a standalone (local?) tor instance set up as proxy in your regular browser, or use some publicly tor2web intermediary.
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poor wording. they mean that the hackers used tor to upload the data anonymously to a public server.
20TB? (Score:2)
20TB is one disk drive these days. It's nothing.
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If you have, say 1kB per customer, it could be the name, address and IMSI for 20 million customers. You now have to wait for each of them to contact you, get that data off each of them and manually enter than information back into your systems. If that takes 12 minutes average per customer th
Proper backups⦠a beautiful dream (Score:2)
Proper backups is exactly what should be done, but there are quite a few businesses out there which are held hostage by someone who waves the hands about âoesecurityâ and then complains that there is reason x y z why it they arenâ(TM)t taking the necessary actions. This even when someone is willing to work with them to resolve the issues.