Poland Army Adds New Cyber Component With Offensive Capabilities (therecord.media) 21
The Polish government has announced today the creation of a new cyber component inside its Army Forces that will be tasked with carrying out operations in cyber-space. From a report: Named the Cyberspace Defense Forces (Wojska Obrony Cyberprzestrzeni), the new branch will operate as a command center inside the Polish Army and will have the authority to carry out reconnaissance, defensive, and offensive operations, the Polish Ministry of National Defense said today. Work on establishing this unit began in 2019 and was formalized earlier today in a ceremony at the Club of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, where Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak appointed Brig. Gen. Karol Molenda as the unit's inaugural commander. [...] With today's announcement, Poland becomes one of the very few countries in the world to formally create a cyber component for their armed forces after NATO officially declared cyberspace a formal warfare battleground and domain of operations at the 2016 NATO Summit, held in Warsaw, Poland.
Some cyber weapons... (Score:2)
What else are they using now?
Ethical hacking services (Score:1)
Putin (Score:5, Insightful)
This is what Putin moving on Ukraine is all about. He sees the eastern former Soviet states growing in prosperity and acquiring significant military capability and strong allies. The writing is on the wall and at the present rate Russia will be an isolated pariah of a broken down old backwater inside of a generation. Poland and Ukraine combined are already >50% of Russia's GDP. As these nations continue to grow and prosper they will surpass Russia and develop military capability far more modern than Russia. At that point the window will be closed and Russia's 110,000,000 alcoholics will have only their aged old nuclear force.
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This is what Putin moving on Ukraine is all about. He sees the eastern former Soviet states growing in prosperity and acquiring significant military capability and strong allies. The writing is on the wall and at the present rate Russia will be an isolated pariah of a broken down old backwater inside of a generation. Poland and Ukraine combined are already >50% of Russia's GDP. As these nations continue to grow and prosper they will surpass Russia and develop military capability far more modern than Russia. At that point the window will be closed and Russia's 110,000,000 alcoholics will have only their aged old nuclear force.
I agree with most of the sentiment, except the last sentence. The word "only" does not belong in one sentence with "nuclear force", even if "old" and "aged".
I don't think that's the issue (Score:5, Interesting)
The alternative is broad, systemic policy change to improve the lives of their subjects, and doing that risks a social upheaval that might change who's in power. At that point as a dictator the only way to stay in power is to really deliver on the goods, but that requires a level of skill and competence Putin doesn't have.
Like Mao and Stalin before him what Putin has is ruthlessness. That's the trouble with dictators (and violent revolution in general). They're not good rulers, let along good administrators, they're just good at violence.
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Putin doesn't give two shits about the country. He simply is afraid of being deposed and a war is a common tool to distract the population from internal problems.
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Seen from close up (my wife is Polish): everybody in Eastern Europe hates each others' guts, every square meter of land has in time belonged to three or four different people, and everybody is always more than willing to start slaughtering each other at the minimal provocation.
And yet, to outsiders you all look the same.
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Ukraine is broken and riddled with corruption, and Poland has no real intention of improving life of any of his pre-WW2 colonies (Ukraine and Belarus). In fact, Poland always treated anyone who uses cyrillic like garbage, and sees that people as candidates for polonization. They were doing exactly that, just before WW2.
And that's why it's currently swimming in Ukrainian immigrants. They are coming to Poland rather than Germany, despite the "horrific treatment of people who use cyryllic", umm... for better money? Higher living standards perhaps? You need to stop listening to Lukashenko's propaganda.
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Ukraine is broken and riddled with corruption, and Poland has no real intention of improving life of any of his pre-WW2 colonies (Ukraine and Belarus). In fact, Poland always treated anyone who uses cyrillic like garbage, and sees that people as candidates for polonization. They were doing exactly that, just before WW2.
And that's why it's currently swimming in Ukrainian immigrants. They are coming to Poland rather than Germany, despite the "horrific treatment of people who use cyryllic", umm... for better money? Higher living standards perhaps? You need to stop listening to Lukashenko's propaganda.
Yes, they come to Poland for money. Ukraine has been experiencing economic hardship, what did you expect?
Ukrainians also come to Portugal, and there they're also treated as 2nd class people. I've been there and I saw that before my eyes.
Poland loves cheap labor, just like the rest of the EU. Heck, you can even find people from India in southern Portugal.
Exploiting foreigners for cheap labour: that's how the EU gets cheap and abundant food.
Now about listening to Lukashenko, that's some ad hominem here.
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Ukraine is broken and riddled with corruption, and Poland has no real intention of improving life of any of his pre-WW2 colonies (Ukraine and Belarus). In fact, Poland always treated anyone who uses cyrillic like garbage, and sees that people as candidates for polonization. They were doing exactly that, just before WW2.
And that's why it's currently swimming in Ukrainian immigrants. They are coming to Poland rather than Germany, despite the "horrific treatment of people who use cyryllic", umm... for better money? Higher living standards perhaps? You need to stop listening to Lukashenko's propaganda.
Yes, they come to Poland for money. Ukraine has been experiencing economic hardship, what did you expect?
I'm not asking about them coming to Poland period, I'm asking about them coming to Poland rather than Germany. But you knew that.
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The explanation is super simple actually. It is much easier to lern a related language than an unrelated one. Both Polish and Ukrainian are Slavic languages and Ukrainian has a shitload of Polish loan words from centures of Polish occupation.
There's a joke in here somewhere. (Score:1)
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If people had the sense.. (Score:1)
..to not connect critical infrastructure to the internet, there'd be no point in anyone having cyber armies. Well, unless some government paper pushers decided it really was worth spending taxpayer dollars on the ability to change an enemy's web page to say "So and so SUX0Rz! pwn3d by P014ND beeyotch!"
Military Offensive Cyber = Stockpiling Ice Bullets (Score:1)
I once tried explaining to a military higher up that their plan to use thousands of computers on their military base to DDoS a target would only DoS their own ga
Offensive Capabilities (Score:4, Funny)
They're going to host Joe Rogan's podcasts?
Obvious joke (Score:2)