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8 hours ago on HN: "Send a text message about Ukraine to a random Russian mobile number" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575738 https://news.ycombinator

8 hours ago on HN: "Send a text message about Ukraine to a random Russian mobile number" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575738

vletal 5y ago
Yeah. With a message which literally says "use Telegram to overthrow Putin"...
tgv 5y ago
Yeah, that sounds like a bad idea in this context. - But I got spammed by some idiot in Ohio. - Unlikely. To the gulag. Next!
- heavenlyblue 5y ago
  Even Russia will not be able to imprison everyone :) Although maybe that action will suddenly motivate SMS companies to find ways of actually dealing with SMS spam properly.
  - arein3 5y ago
    You should check out how gulag worked
    - heavenlyblue 5y ago
      I don’t think your comment makes any sense. Yes gulags imprisoned a lot of people, actually a lot of heavily educated individuals but still it was not the majority of the population. What Russia in that case would do they would probably either implement some spam detection or just flat out disable SMS messaging in the country.
- ck2 5y ago
  Vaguely reminds me when US offered a bounty for turning people in in Iraq so people would turn in their neighbors they didn't like despite them not actually being guilty of anything. Whole lotta people ended up in gitmo that were actually innocent that way. This is obviously going to be a very dark decade for Ukraine but less obvious is how bad things are going to get in Russia if they can pull the curtain over it like this. Worst thing US did to Iraq invasion protestors domestically was put them on the "no fly" list which is abusive but trivial in comparison. I wonder who is waiting in the wings after Putin and if they are going to be better or worse.
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jasinjames 5y ago
You could call this the Address Unknown[1] approach. An excellent and quick (<30 minutes) read, but probably not an appropriate tactic to use against a random Russian citizen. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Unknown_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Unknown_(novel)

8 hours ago on HN: "Send a text message about Ukraine to a random Russian mobile number" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575738

vletal 5y ago

Yeah. With a message which literally says "use Telegram to overthrow Putin"...

tgv 5y ago

Yeah, that sounds like a bad idea in this context. - But I got spammed by some idiot in Ohio. - Unlikely. To the gulag. Next!

heavenlyblue 5y ago
Even Russia will not be able to imprison everyone :) Although maybe that action will suddenly motivate SMS companies to find ways of actually dealing with SMS spam properly.
- arein3 5y ago
  You should check out how gulag worked
  - heavenlyblue 5y ago
    I don’t think your comment makes any sense. Yes gulags imprisoned a lot of people, actually a lot of heavily educated individuals but still it was not the majority of the population. What Russia in that case would do they would probably either implement some spam detection or just flat out disable SMS messaging in the country.
ck2 5y ago
Vaguely reminds me when US offered a bounty for turning people in in Iraq so people would turn in their neighbors they didn't like despite them not actually being guilty of anything. Whole lotta people ended up in gitmo that were actually innocent that way. This is obviously going to be a very dark decade for Ukraine but less obvious is how bad things are going to get in Russia if they can pull the curtain over it like this. Worst thing US did to Iraq invasion protestors domestically was put them on the "no fly" list which is abusive but trivial in comparison. I wonder who is waiting in the wings after Putin and if they are going to be better or worse.

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jasinjames 5y ago

You could call this the Address Unknown[1] approach. An excellent and quick (<30 minutes) read, but probably not an appropriate tactic to use against a random Russian citizen. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Unknown_(novel) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Unknown_(novel)