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Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin
- andrewstetsenko 5y agoThat’s a new way to fight against Russian tanks and troops
- gruez 5y agoTaking down internet websites isn't anywhere close to "fight against Russian tanks and troops"
- cookie_monsta 5y agoI suspect you may have missed the sarcasm here.
- spansoa 5y agoFirst time seeing a DDOS-Guard interstitial when visiting RT.com I thought these were defacements, but it's just your common DDOS playbook.
- tentacleuno 5y agoThe response for / has its Server header set to ddos-guard. Looks like they've moved to commercial solutions.
- rusras64 5y agoMy city is bombed for 3 days in a row. Many of my friends took arms to defend the country. I'm grateful to any help from Anonymous!
- weaksauce 5y agothe world is on your side if not at your side just yet... hopefully putin gets deposed and someone more like your leader gets installed
- JadeNB 5y ago> hopefully putin gets deposed and someone more like your leader gets installed Given the choice, I'd definitely rather have Zelensky than Putin, but preferably not either. The world doesn't need more celebrity politicians. (I recognise that the US is scarcely a model here; I can only plead that I didn't want any of our celebrity politicians, either.) EDIT: To be quite clear, this is not meant in any way as anti-Zelenksy. As the child comments say, correctly, he seems to be the leader Ukraine needs right now.
- kergonath 5y agoThe Ukrainians choosing whomever they want is the best outcome. There is still the possibility that they could choose someone terrible, but that is their prerogative. The perfect president does not exist. I’d settle for one with whom you can have a discussion and who does not see the world through the prism of an imaginary past.
- JadeNB 5y ago> The Ukrainians choosing whomever they want is the best outcome. There is still the possibility that they could choose someone terrible, but that is their prerogative. Oh, agreed! I certainly wouldn't say that Ukrainians shouldn't be able to select their own leader—they should, and, despite superficial impressions, have done so well. It's just that I hope the world doesn't learn from this that electing comedians is the way to go.
- kergonath 5y ago> It's just that I hope the world doesn't learn from this that electing comedians is the way to go. Yeah. Though this one does not seem to behave so badly in the end. No comparison with Trump or Reagan. To be fair, whilst not a populist, I am fed up with career politicians and bland technocrats that are killing politics. We need doctors, lawyers, intellectuals, farmers, businessmen, factory workers, and much more (in no specific order) in our parliaments and amongst our elected people. A sweet spot between reckless clowns and psychopaths would be nice.
- jacquesm 5y agoStrength to you there!
- ch4s3 5y agoStay safe, and good luck to your friends.
- reitanqild 5y agoDon't give up friend! Things move slowly but they move! Germans allow German weapons to be sent to you, Dutch will send. Poland is sending truckloads. I've already been looking up Norwegian politicians this morning to ask them to somehow get rid of their old law to not export weapons to countries at war (I think it was meant to be against profiting from war, not to prevent helping, in which case maybe it would be OK if they sent it for free? Norway has some seriously good weapons tech so it could help.) I got an offer the other day that I normally wouldn't take but will possibly take anyway to help oil&gas/defense. Edit: Russian athletes will be banned from competitions. Champions League finals will not be in St. Petersburg, World Cup Skiing final will not be in Russia etc.
- willis936 5y agoI didn't think the banner of Anonymous as-used-by leftist hacktivists was still active after the FBI's crackdown a decade ago. Imagine a world where the FBI treated white supremacist terrorists the same way they treat hacktivists.
- Stevvo 5y agoIt's an open-pseudonym, has gone through many iterations. For all we know sometimes Anonymous is the FBI.
- lowwave 5y agowasn't there an original PGP signature that verify the first Anonymous?
- Geezus-42 5y agoWhen I first heard of Anonymous they were going after scientologist. It has definitely been used by a number of groups over time, probably with some overlap.
- HWR_14 5y ago> For all we know sometimes Anonymous is the FBI. An entirely deniable front for US cyberwarfare (or way to rally hacktivists to their cause) seems like a valuable thing for a nation state to create.
- bckr 5y agoThat's the beauty of Anonymous, isn't it? It's a hydra.
- 1_player 5y agoProbably it's the NSA dressed as Anonymous, but honestly who cares. Keep DDOSing, whoever is behind this.
- befeltingu 5y agoWhere are all these white supremacist terrorists and what evidence is there that the FBI gives them a pass?
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- laurent123456 5y agoThat's a show of support for Ukraine, which is something.
- Angostura 5y agoEdgy!
- agumonkey 5y agoheh, snark aside, it might have ripple in the population.
- tgv 5y agoThe justification is that those sites are used to spread false information to the Russian public. By blocking access to them, they might start looking elsewhere, and won't be bombarded with the "denazification" brainwash attempts.
- GordonS 5y agoPutin accusing Ukraine leadership of being nazis was... utterly bizarre (reminded me a bit of Trump). I mean of all that people to say such a thing?!
- leereeves 5y agoI suspect that in Russia "Nazi" implies anti-Russian rather than anti-Semitic. The Germans killed about 20 million Russians in WW2, including about 15 million civilians. Perhaps those remarks sound bizarre to Western ears because we interpret them differently.
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- azalemeth 5y agoThey have provided a "user-friendly ddos tool" here [1] as discussed on reddit [2]. This does exactly what you'd expect it to do – it makes a large number of connections every second. It's completely and utterly dumb (and beware clicking the link!) but I imagine that such attempts sufficiently at scale are large enough to have a significant effect. Whether or not rt.com going down internationally materially affects Vladimir's plans or place in the world, however, is another question. [1] https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/ https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/ [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t18qm4/you_can_ddos_russian_government_websites_from/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t18qm4/you_can_ddo...
- markvdb 5y agoThe mental health of so many people watching powerlessly is also worth something. This gives anyone a chance of doing something. It might help very little, but it _is_ at least a grain of sand in the machine of death. P.S. I'd encourage you to have a look at the js source code before opening this page. It seems to be relatively clean, readable and straightforward indeed.
- lostmsu 5y agoHere's an alternative, that includes a bit more infrastructure, that potentially participates in the military supply chains + state-owned social networks: https://lostmsu.github.io/hack_russia/ https://lostmsu.github.io/hack_russia/ You can also easily fork it: https://github.com/lostmsu/lostmsu.github.io https://github.com/lostmsu/lostmsu.github.io
- hughrr 5y agoThis is excellent. If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated "on mission" for a couple of months. Then they get orders to proceed into Ukraine, probably spun without any collateral information or lies. At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE. That means no propaganda available from the Russian government. The only sources available to them, if they get access to them, are saying that they're the bad guys and that is soul crushingly demotivating when you don't know why you are where you are.
- tablespoon 5y ago> If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated "on mission" for a couple of months....At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE. Really? I though RT was part of Russia's foreign propaganda effort, so I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on domestic news consumption. IIRC, actually Russians get their news from domestic outlets like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia-1 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_Russia. This is good news, but mainly because it interferes with Russia's foreign propaganda operations around this attack.
- kergonath 5y agoI don’t think the OP the as saying that the Russian soldiers were lost because RT was taken down. Rather that they were lost, on top of everything else that is happening currently. It is clear that RT is propaganda for foreign consumption, not domestic.
- poisonarena 5y agoNo, Russians use telegram groups for this kind of thing, and if they are not savvy they will use VK
- yarpen_z 5y agoSoldiers do not go into action with their phones. That's OPSEC 101. That's why we see so many smartphone recordings made by civilians, but not by the military.
- 52358 5y agothat's cute and all, but I don't think the invading forces get their orders from the defense ministry website how does this change anything? feels more symbolic than anything
- yyyk 5y agoSee xkcd 932 on this type of reporting: https://xkcd.com/932/ https://xkcd.com/932/
- jancsika 5y agoTo be fair the second panel be more like: "Someone found an open window in the CIA's poster-printing factory and used it to gum up the cogs in one of the conveyor belts."
- yyyk 5y agoI'm certain all these organizations can act without their poster^W websites, even if these were permanently downed, which they were not.
- jancsika 5y agoIn keeping with the analogy: the finishing school that's churning out teams of highly coiffed government-destabilizing psychopaths is not physically connected to the factory that produces the posters. And the custodian in the poster factory knows how to clean the gears and reset the breakers.
- dTal 5y agoI dunno, it's a bit different when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare. It's more like "hackers incapacitate CIA mind control device".
- yyyk 5y ago>when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare. So exactly like a real poster. >like "CIA mind control device" These sites don't have that kind of power.
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- otterley 5y agort.com appears to be up and running in the U.S.
- TeeMassive 5y agoPeople often underestimate the effect of propaganda. I know very high profile and highly intelligent people, think doctors and lawyers, who think it still is an act of self-defense against neo-nazis. I can understand the argument of NATO encircling Russia, but the invasion of a sovereign democracy can't be justified. Russia was on losing track because of Russia, not Ukraine.
- tartoran 5y agoRT seems unaffected at the moment. Was this a temporary outage?
- hatenberg 5y agoYou mean the CIA. But I guess people like the tooth fairy and satoshi as monikers better.
- nunez 5y agoIs this the first known usage of HTTP 418 in the wild?