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Sanctions hit people outside of Russia. Russian visas and mastercards stopped working abroad regardless of the cardholders nationality. Many businesses outside
by stuxneteer 5y ago
Sanctions hit people outside of Russia. Russian visas and mastercards stopped working abroad regardless of the cardholders nationality.
Many businesses outside of Russia are also severely impacted.
Malware can be just as targeted as economic sanctions. The node-ipc “malware” certainly was.
- _Algernon_ 5y agoHow about this then? The sanctions are implemented by a wide ranging alliance of democratically elected governments, meaning they have a mandate behind them and legitimacy. These malware efforts are vigilantism.
- stuxneteer 5y agoThese malware efforts are not too different from western companies voluntarily pulling out of Russia, they’re also engaging in their own kind of “vigilantism”. The question is whether or not this kind of “vigilantism” is bad. It’s not obvious to me that it’s any worse than McDonalds or LVMH shutting down their stores in Russia. There’s no doubt sanctions have wider backing, but that’s hardly a moral argument. The legal side is indisputable and pointless to debate.