Cyberattack Hits Ukrainian Websites as Russia Tensions Mount (bloomberg.com) 28
Ukraine's worst cyberattack in four years brought down the websites of scores of government agencies for hours. Authorities didn't immediately identify the source of the hacks, which took place as tensions with Russia intensified over its troop buildup across the border. From a report: Seventy government agencies were were hit, including the Foreign and Agriculture Ministries, Viktor Zhora, the deputy head of the state agency in charge of special communication and information protection, said Friday. Authorities are investigating and will have their first conclusions later in the day, he said. "There was no leak of important data, the content of the websites was not damaged," Ukraine Zhora said. "We are collecting digital evidence and analyzing data to understand the full chain of this attack." Ukraine has previously accused Russia of mounting major cyberattacks against its digital infrastructure. Relations between the two former Soviet partners have worsened since the ouster of a Russian-backed president in 2014 and Moscow's subsequent annexation of Crimea.
To be fair to Russia... (Score:1)
Everyone blames Putin likes he's some sort of monster but if you met him you'd probably like him (as long as you were into petty dictators) and it isn't his fault he's butthurt about Russia having lost the cold war. They probsably didn't tell him Russia was a second rate power now when they offered him the job.
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Unless you become an enemy and he decides to poison you with a nerve agent.
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Unless you become an enemy and he decides to poison you with a nerve agent.
Or you throw yourself out of a window [vox.com].
Taiwan (Score:2)
Despite Russia recently annexing Crimea and obviously aiming for Ukraine in this year, the biggest threat is obviously China who said they want to be the world's manufacturing hub.
Re: Taiwan (Score:3, Insightful)
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China is watching [theatlantic.com] the West's involvement with Ukraine with great interest. In addition to the article, I can imagine a school of PRC military thought wherein if the US gets involved in Ukraine, that's the best time to invade ROC.
Nice (Score:2)
Nice post. Never mind the fact that China has active territorial claims on territory belonging to well over a half dozen countries (many of whom are allies of ours). Or never mind the fact that China's military is rapidly improving and will be competitive to ours in a few decades.
But yeah, sure, nothing to worry over from China.
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And you're worried about decades.
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I never said a thing about Russia. Obviously we should keep an incredibly close eye on them, in fact later on in this thread you'll find me saying that I think NATO should find itself with a major training exercise with its neighbor Ukraine within their borders as a means of putting off the Russians.
What I was taking issue with was you minimalizing of China. China will be a challenge for the US long after the price of oil tanks and Russia turns into a failed state.
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I guess throwing spaghetti against the wall passes these days for a reasoned post.
Russia has no tech industry, is a shithole... (Score:4, Insightful)
Ukraine has a larger technology industry than Russia does, because it is not a 2nd rate totalitarian kleptocracy like Russia. Nobody wants to do business in Russia ever. At best the outside world will buy the oil which Russia produces by plundering it's natural resources and sickening its workers.
Russia is at best a giant gas station with a foreign policy which ensures it will never be a great economic power. Russia is isolated from the world's economy, and if it invades Ukraine as their thieving leader Putin has promised Russia will be cut off from the global banking system.
What a sad waste of a country's resources and potential.
This only works because Putin poisons the underpants of his political opposition. But even a dickless political prisoner has more balls than the petty tyrant who keeps Russia poor by stealing from the people and running the country into the ground.
Lock Him Up.
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Ukraine has a larger technology industry than Russia does, because it is not a 2nd rate totalitarian kleptocracy like Russia. Nobody wants to do business in Russia ever. At best the outside world will buy the oil which Russia produces by plundering it's natural resources and sickening its workers.
Russia is at best a giant gas station with a foreign policy which ensures it will never be a great economic power. Russia is isolated from the world's economy, and if it invades Ukraine as their thieving leader Putin has promised Russia will be cut off from the global banking system.
What a sad waste of a country's resources and potential.
This only works because Putin poisons the underpants of his political opposition. But even a dickless political prisoner has more balls than the petty tyrant who keeps Russia poor by stealing from the people and running the country into the ground.
Lock Him Up.
I say zap him with a Jewish space laser and feed him to a Kraken.
Language (Score:2)
Relations between the two former Soviet partners...
That's a funny way to spell "conquered [wikipedia.org] vassal state". Which Russian partisan wrote this article?
Crickets (Score:2)
Ah, now we see why REvil was arrested: (Score:2)
I don't know why... (Score:2)
I don't know why there isn't a big NATO training exercise happening with our dear neighbor Ukraine right in their country with an indefinite time limit. The Russians withdrawal their military from Ukraine's border and "oh, the NATO training exercise is over now".
Modern day Russia is a shell of a country relative to the old Soviet Union, there's no way they'd risk a war with NATO.
Re: I don't know why... (Score:2)
They still have the nukes and a large land army, so they are like a giant North Korea that siphons money off the EU and China as the giant gas station it is. Even the actual puny North Korea with maybe 5 shitty nukes is not something others mess with. Oh and there is the fact that Putin doesn't mind human sacrifice at all, while the West, esp. Western Europe cannot fathom losing soldiers, and gas access, let alone letting their dense, historical cities threatened by Russian nukes.
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Nukes threaten both ways. Putin may care less about his people then the West cares about its own but Putin does care about Russia and I think it's safe to say he doesnt want to see it turned into a wasteland.
You're probably on point in regards to our allies in Europe though, many of them have shown very little backbone when it comes to dealing with Russia.
Obvious (Score:1)
Paywalled :( (Score:2)