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Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline
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- rasengan 5y agoIt would be wise to wait a beat before determining who your targets are. There is still yet much to be revealed.
- CWuestefeld 5y agoIt seems like this has been playing out for months, if not longer. I'm not sure what else there might be to wait for.
- teawrecks 5y agoI recommend stopping the one killing people. Seems like a safe bet.
- kataklasm 5y agoPutin is killing civilians en masse in Ukraine right now. I'm pretty sure the whole world over knows who the target is, at least the ones in business with democracy and justice systems.
- eps 5y agoCan anoyone currently in the Russian IP space confirm the effects of this?
- Klaster_1 5y agoKremlin.ru opens for me, but at a very low speed. Mvd.ru redirects to мвд.рф just fine. Taking down .рф TLD sounds like the next step.
- sha-3 5y agoI'm not very familiar with who Anonymous is and what they did in the past. But can't any hacker group just do this and claim they're Anonymous?
- TOGoS 5y agoThey could, but by declaring that they are responsible they would, by definition, no longer be anonymous. (ha ha?)
- colordrops 5y agoYes that's the idea.
- wyldfire 5y agoI wonder - does it really benefit individuals to identify themselves with Anonymous? Do successful attacks carry more weight when identified w the group? And if caught, does it come with harsher penalties, less harsh, or the same?
- tjpnz 5y agoWhy would an individual identity themselves as being part of a group called Anonymous? That's not the point.
- moralestapia 5y agoThen what's the point of an "Anonymous" Twitter account?
- cronix 5y agoIt's a benefit only in terms of publicity. In the same way if someone killed someone with a knife and left a "Jack the Ripper was here" note would get a lot more sensationalistic press than no note. Anonymous was a household brand name during Obama as they were exposing a lot of what he was doing behind the scenes, like drone strikes on innocent civilians and illegally targeting Americans overseas without due process. It was in the news constantly with their videos at a time when most people still watched TV.
- jmcgough 5y agohttps://mil.ru/ https://mil.ru/ is returning a 418 ("I'm a teapot")
- huhtenberg 5y agoPeople on /r/sysadmin checked it and it's to the outside of Russia only.
- tyingq 5y agoYeah, you can use a Russian web-based proxy and see it: http://vkrosse2.ru/proxy/browse.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmil.ru%2F&b=28&f=norefer http://vkrosse2.ru/proxy/browse.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmil.ru%2...
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoIt's been that way for quite some time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30475651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30475651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29594249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29594249
- dylan604 5y agoOther than some internet street cred in a show of solidarity, what's the point? It's not like Putin is going to decide to stop invading and pull back because some governmental website was taken offline. It's not like they have disrupted in field command and control, communications, etc of the attacking forces. It's not like they've shud down the power to the offices of those in charge, or taken over Putin's personal bank accounts, or anything useful at all. Do the people of Ukraine benefit at all from this? Does this show NATO leaders that they have no backbone?
- robbedpeter 5y agoIt's a shot across the bow, propaganda, and reconnaissance all in one. If they find soft targets, anonymous will attack them, and it makes Russia look bad.
- dylan604 5y agoAgain, what's the point of making Russia look bad? Do you think that having a down gov't website makes them look any more "bad" than attacking another country with their military? All this is doing is causing some Russian IT group of people to do extra work. These IT people may not even be supporting Putin's decision.
- robbedpeter 5y agoCounter argument: why not? Why allow any Russian to feel comfortable while this is happening? Why not inflict as much inconvenience as possible on Russian state apparatus? Many Russians are complicit. They are not entitled to comfort nor stability while their leadership commit atrocities. Revolution could take down Putin from within if he overextends his resources - unlikely, but possible, and that possibility increases if regular Russians start to feel antagonistic to Putin and the consequences of his actions.
- dylan604 5y agoI can definitely appreciate that sentiment, but this level of "attack" is just a Tuesday for Western businesses from attacks from Russian operatives. It wouldn't be a far stretch for Putin to declare these actual attacks on Russia since they are not private business but gov't networks. If they trace these attacks back to NATO countries, it could then be used as casus belli
- nest0r 5y agoWith Russian hacking and ransomeware attacks running rampart I don’t understand why we are still peering them same goes for North Korea and China. I know, I know VPNs and shit but we still get an insane amount of knocks from Russia and China.
- paganel 5y agoFor what it's worth https://rosneft.com https://rosneft.com is down for me, I wanted to fw to a friend a press-release from December 2021 (or that's what the Google SERPs show me as the date) where Rosneft the company was celebrating BP (the British energy company) increasing its shares in Rosneft to more than 20% or such.
- anshumankmr 5y agoI tried opening government.ru and the page is still loading (been about 2-3 minutes for me)
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agohow does someone go about doing this? yesterday news of RT.com being similarly hacked or being down. i mean sure you can do phishing and stuff but how do you do a lot of websites at once? ddos?
- herbst 5y agoWhen people hear ddos they often think about pure force of traffic. In reality there are attacks like specifically requesting slow parts of a website, or long opening http connections (i.e. slowloris) that can do the trick with much less traffic.
- 0x38B 5y agoJudging by this unverified video, TV channels were playing Ukrainian songs: https://t.me/uniannet/32413 https://t.me/uniannet/32413 The people in the video are complaining about it: – It’s all of them [channels]? – Yep – Damn
- LinuxBender 5y agoOff topic question: Has anyone managed to hack into any aircraft or tanks yet? I vaguely recall some US tanks were using Microsoft Windows and also vaguely recall that the RU borrowed some US battle tech. Did the RU also borrow some US fighter tech? Not suggesting harming anyone but forcing the landing gear locked deployed and flaps to 100% should be entertaining if feasible? Make tanks dance to a tik-tok video? Tik-tok on every HUD?
- na85 5y agoYou want me to hack... the planet?
- mactavish88 5y agoI’d imagine it’d be incredibly unlikely that critical software systems in jets or tanks would be internet-connected. From past experience with military-spec software development, it’s usually highly redundant and isolated. The operating systems are often real-time Linux-based ones (at least the ones I was exposed to). If there’s Windows running there somewhere, it’s unlikely it’s in a critical system.
- LinuxBender 5y agoit’s unlikely it’s in a critical system I used to think that as well but I recall a time when a bunch of US tanks were blue-screening and that in effect disabled navigation or something to that effect. Maybe I can find those old articles. But you are probably right. If it were possible someone probably would have done it by now.
- hyperman1 5y agohttps://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/ https://www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/
- DoItToMe81 5y agoUS drones were capable of having their camera remote accessed at one point. The Taliban did it in 2009. Never underestimate the power of human hubris and laziness.
- leke 5y agoWow, it was fascinating to read some of the headline spins on the RT site.
- mcculley 5y ago> Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin's state censorship machine. How does taking sites offline free people of censorship?
- adventured 5y agoA critical element to censorship is what's placed in the vacuum after you do the censoring of free information. Censorship is essentially never just the act of censoring, it's typically a larger program in action and almost always includes state propaganda filling the vacuum they create after they censor. They're taking down, or trying to take down, some of the fill-in propaganda that the Russians will otherwise be receiving domestically or that the state machinery will otherwise be pushing outward (eg via RT) for foreign audience consumption. If you want to combat censorship, you'd also ideally want to target the propaganda delivery methods they're using to replace free information. Stripping the situation back to vacuum would be better than just leaving the Russian state propaganda to fill in the vacuum. That'd be a win.
- mcculley 5y agoI get that there is value in censoring propaganda. It is still censorship. I am not convinced that the best action to counter propaganda is to censor it. (I realize I have a bias towards U.S. style free speech. Maybe censorship is best for other cultures. I am still unconvinced.)
- tonymet 5y agomilitary websites are of negligible strategic value. It’s like saying “Anonymous captures crates of russian military recruitment pamphlets”.
- lazerl0rd 5y agoI wonder if this was really "Anonymous" (with regards to who runs the Twitter page) or a collective effort with non-affiliated individuals. Ukraine has listed websites they asked "friends of Ukraine" to try DDos including such that have been down [1]. Anonymous (again, those who run the Twitter page) seemingly lied [2] earlier about a Ministry of Defense leak which they swiftly took down the tweet of [3]. [1] : https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022/5 https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022/5 [2] : https://mobile.twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1497327552666673152 https://mobile.twitter.com/hexdefined/status/149732755266667... [3] : https://web.archive.org/web/20220225193536/https://twitter.com/youranontv/status/1497273131567828992 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225193536/https://twitter.c...
- nikolay 5y agoThis is like putting the Ukrainian flag on your Facebook profile picture - it does nothing in the real world. Ukrain nians humanitarian help and other tangible support, not this "oh, see, I've done something" pretend-a-care.
- raadore 5y agoThese types of internet attacks amount to nothing but advertising revenue for media companies, as mentioned by many commenters; however, they occur during war time which means they are considered a direct attack, just as if a rocket had been launched, which makes the offender state an enemy engaged in the war. Everyone must consider the risk factor of such attacks as retaliation is imminent and much more severe. I am more than sure Putin’s army has been preparing for all scenarios for years.