Someone Hacked Largest Taxi Service In Russia, Ordered All Available Taxis To the Same Location 64
According to Twitter user @runews, someone hacked the largest taxi service in Russia, Yandex Taxi, and ordered all the available taxis to an address on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The tweet includes a video showing the traffic jam that this caused in the middle of Moscow. It's not known who was behind the attack.
In a statement to SouthFront, the company said: "The security service promptly stopped attempts to artificially accumulate cars. Drivers spent about 40 minutes in traffic due to fake orders. The issue of compensation will be resolved in the very near future." The company stressed that in order to exclude such incidents in the future, "the algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved."
In a statement to SouthFront, the company said: "The security service promptly stopped attempts to artificially accumulate cars. Drivers spent about 40 minutes in traffic due to fake orders. The issue of compensation will be resolved in the very near future." The company stressed that in order to exclude such incidents in the future, "the algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved."
Funny as shit (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess he sent a few camera-teams there first.
Taxigeddon (Score:1)
Residence must be looking out their apartment window thinking WTF? Taxi convention? Traffic jam convention?
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I guess he sent a few camera-teams there first.
So... Positive Phototaxis [wikipedia.org]
in soviet russia we order you! (Score:2, Funny)
in soviet russia we order you!
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Next time (Score:3)
Send them to the reported addresses of all the MPs... Then of the priests of the Orthodox church... Lots of fun possibilities. Probably don't target the FSB, though...
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Probably don't target the FSB, though..
Then of the priests of the Orthodox church..
So, which is it?
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Drunk Russian soldiers targeting the FSB [ibtimes.com]
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That won't end well for those who pulled that stunt.
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That won't end well for those who pulled that stunt.
I doubt it, in Putanist Russia criminals control the government. Wouldn't be surprised to find most of them were on the FSB payroll.
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If it turns out they were protesting the, um, liberation of Ukraine, probably fall out of a window somewhere.
Ouch (Score:2)
I don't think the average parish priest getting harassed would generate a reaction from the Lubyanka, but you might get unlucky. OTOH this stunt is embarrassing to the elite, so will get some serious attention.
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I don't think the average parish priest getting harassed would generate a reaction from the Lubyanka, but you might get unlucky.
Yeah, I was thinking mostly of Patriarch Kirill for whom there is evidence that he is literally an FSB agent. Considering that Russia is a security state and that the Russian Orthodox church does practice the sacrement of confession, it would be extremely unusual if the FSB had no infiltrated the clergy. Not that every Russian Orthodox priest is an FSB agent. That part was just hyperbole.
The question is... (Score:1)
Did anyone on the street notice a difference?
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Considering Russians don't even believe Ukrainians exist, anything to make Russian lives more difficult is warranted.
The fun part will be when Kherson is liberated and watching how Putin tries to claim it's still being occupied.
Everything is going to plan, comrade.
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Yes, heaven forbid we help a free people defend themselves from outside aggression from a country that has shown repeatedly in the last decade that they will continue to take territory from countries on their boarders they dont like if they arent stopped.
What a bunch of assholes we are giving Ukrainians the means of protecting themselves that they are asking for!
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It makes me feel a little bit special if I'm honest.
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Yes, heaven forbid we help a free people defend themselves from outside aggression from a country that has shown repeatedly in the last decade that they will continue to take territory from countries on their boarders they dont like if they arent stopped.
What a bunch of assholes we are giving Ukrainians the means of protecting themselves that they are asking for!
I'm going to commit assumicide, and tag you as an American. So, why is it our business as a country to get involved in another country's war?
From Kennedy's vow to fight in Vietnam, to Dubya's Iraq invasion, haven't we yet learned that the Founding Fathers were right all along, and that we should stay the hell out of other country's affairs? Especially their wars? Russia is NOT the Soviet Union... it's not a worldwide conquest threat. It's a regional threat. And we're not in their region. We've went from Joh
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So, why is it our business as a country to get involved in another country's war?
When a democratic country is being attacked, without any provocation whatsoever, by a communist leaning country (or whatever the hell you want to call Russia), it is the obligation of every other democracitic nation to step up and defend that country by whatever means they see fit.
Russia is NOT the Soviet Union... it's not a worldwide conquest threat. It's a regional threat. And we're not in their region.
Huh, and here we though
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So UK should have supported the democratically elected Hitler against the non-democratic Soviet Union? .
Had the UK stayed out of it, there's a fair argument that they'd still be a world power.
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Aside that, mods, please correct the parent post moderation, how on earth is that flamebait? Or are there so many Russian trolls with mod points?
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So, why is it our business as a country to get involved in another country's war?
Because it's the right fucking thing to do, you empathy-impaired prick.
If it has to be explained to you, you'll never understand it.
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I understand that stupid bastards like you are quite willing to send MY kids to die in a war that has nothing to do with us for YOUR virtue signaling. Go fuck yourself.
As I said, if it has to be explained to you, you'll never understand it. Maybe your psychiatrist can help you come to terms with your self-centered lack of empathy, but I doubt it.
The fact that you confuse a sense of empathy with 'virtue signaling' tells us all we need to know about you.
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God I hope you don't have children, if you do put them up for adoption.
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Sincerely, someone whose grandparents hastily emigrated from pre-WWII Germany - to South Africa....
Sure, let's play that game. I have whole sections of my family tree that are missing because, unlike yours, my relatives couldn't get out of Germany in time. They died while other people pondered if "preventing mass genocide" was the "right thing to do".
I don't think we should wait until the crematoriums are running full blast and then have a sober, reasoned discussion about it.
I'd rather be wrong in pursuit of my well-intentioned motives than let atrocities occur. And that is, in part, because my relatives
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Re:Obligatory daily propaganda article ? (Score:4, Insightful)
So, why is it our business as a country to get involved in another country's war?
In the case of Ukraine there are at least a couple good reasons I can name off the top of my head (there are probably more)
The first is strategic, Russia has already expanded twice at the expense of regional neighbors in the last decade and its dictator often opines for the "good ol' days" of the Russian Empire and is thus incredibly unlikely to just up and stop at Ukraine if left unopposed. For instance we've literally had at least one Russian general let slip that Moldavia is or at least was next on the list and Putin's stated pledge to protect ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com] is awfully worrisome considering that was Russia's exact excuse for invading Ukraine, meanwhile pretty much all Eastern European countries have sizeable Russian minority populations.
The second is moralistic. Ukraine is a democracy run by its people meanwhile its undemocratic neighbor is clearly trying to conquer them, so yes we're trying to help.
And yeah, sure, on that last point you can say "Well what about all the democracies we don't help like Malaysia?". To that I would reply, well at least we're helping here.
From Kennedy's vow to fight in Vietnam, to Dubya's Iraq invasion, haven't we yet learned that the Founding Fathers were right all along, and that we should stay the hell out of other country's affairs?
You're convoluting wars in which we sent our army into countries uninvited by any form of local government and where the majority of the country very avidly did not want us there with a war where all we're doing is sending aid to a country that is requesting it to repel an invader. Not a good way to sell your point.
Your clock is ticking (Score:2)
Online trolling seems to be preferable to becoming cannon fodder in Ukraine.
But don't feel too save: Once Russia runs out of soldiers to send to Ukraine, Putin will sent you and your friends, whether you trolled on Slashdot or not.
Re:Obligatory daily propaganda article ? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why does this have to be about Ukraine?
It's freaking funny no matter what the motivation.
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But if it isnt about Ukraine then motox doesnt have a reason to go on an anti Ukrainian rant! Did you even stop for a moment to think about motox before writing your post!
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I never said this wasnt about Russia and Ukraine, I just answered the above poster's question of "why it had to be".
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The article isn't about Russia vs Ukraine. The only suggestion that it was related is just a random conjecture added at the end with no evidence to back it up:
It was not revealed who was behind the attack but it can be supposed that the hackers were linked to the Kiev regime or its western allies.
"Something went wrong in Russia, so we suppose it must be related to the Ukraine" ... because everything would be absolutely perfect in Russia if only those meanie Ukrainians would stop being so mean and hand over their country. RIGHT?
Re: Obligatory daily propaganda article ? (Score:1)
You misspelled motive twice and your name includes 240 (seemingly meaningless) instead of 420...
You Russian trolls need to step up your game.
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Not sure what your post is supposed to be about but I didnt use the word motive once. Maybe you're trying (and failing) to be clever?
You Russian trolls need to step up your game.
Why would a Russian troll post pro Ukrainian posts? Maybe you just need to go reread things...
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And why would I want 420 at the name of my handle? What am I a thirteen year old stoner? This site didnt even exists when I was young enough to think something like that was cool.
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Fuck em. A nation is responsible for their leaders, harass away. If they want to double down on stupid then that is up to them. I still know Russians who think that they are saving the world from Nazis.
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It's unclear how harassing the russian population would help the ucranian cause, other than having more russians side with Putin
Because it's not about actually hurting Russia's war effort, or even doing anything useful to aid Ukraine in their war effort. It's about getting updoots on Reddit or some other site.
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The Russian civilian population ALREADY sides with Putin. They believe the whole "special operation" is to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis supported by Europe and the western world. (They're playing the Nazi card hard because in WWII Russia defended itself against the Nazis quite successfully
Everything done to Russia has been spun as Nazis trying to attack Russia. It's all state controlle
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When the entire world no longer welcomes you even if you come with tourist dollars, most people would at least give pause to think about things. Even if not immediately it plants the seeds of thoughts.
Re: Obligatory daily propaganda article ? (Score:2)
They believe the whole "special operation" is to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis supported by Europe and the western world. (They're playing the Nazi card hard because in WWII Russia defended itself against the Nazis quite successfully
Eh dunno if I'd call that a success exactly. Yeah, they repelled the Germans, but basically did so by throwing warm bodies at them until they ran out of bullets. They've more or less used that same strategy in every war since, including in Ukraine, only Ukraine isn't going to run out of bullets any time soon when the west is giving them a limitless supply.
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Eh dunno if I'd call that a success exactly. Yeah, they repelled the Germans, but basically did so by throwing warm bodies at them until they ran out of bullets.
And the truth is that they *did* repel the Germans, at a terrible cost. This cost is however forgotten or purposefully ignored. This is because the World War II victory has become a powerful propaganda tool for the Russian state.
The war was 80 years ago and there are hardly any survivors left to tell the true story. Real history isn't available to the average Russians either. All that's left is the narrative, and Putin controls it. The terrible losses Russia suffered are glossed over, or only mentioned as p
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Dammit, this was mis-posted. Should have been a reply to ArmoredDragon
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Sorry your feelings got hurt.
How is the weather in Moscow today?
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Hard to continue when the people lose interest or opposing being in a foreign war.
In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Good story element (Score:1)
algorithm ... improved (Score:3)
The company stressed that in order to exclude such incidents in the future, "the algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved."
So the next "attacks" will send taxis to random places instead of all to the same location.
In SF, the Cruse taxis did that all by themselves. (Score:3, Informative)
DDoS (Score:2)
The physical manifestation of distributed denial-of-service by way of taxis, LOL!
Here's the pseudo code: (Score:2)
"Yall are cows, come home."