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Stupid people do stupid things all the time. Clearly not an educated tactic. No one with an anything above the brain stem would do that, and that's not what's b
by diordiderot 5y ago
Stupid people do stupid things all the time. Clearly not an educated tactic. No one with an anything above the brain stem would do that, and that's not what's being argued for.
Racism isn't the point, crippling the Russian state is. Assuming anything else smells like bad faith.
- scaramanga 5y agoHuge parts of the Russian state are "infrastructure necessary for civil life" attacking those would be contrary to international humanitarian law. But there is also the tactical issue of whether such attacks would have the desired effect. Imagine if Russia would attempt to "cripple the US state" to stop the war in Iraq... I think the average Joe in America would feel quite threatened by that notion. As a corollary, consider this: as a response, would Joe be more likely turn against his state, or realise that he desperately needs to support it, in order to defend his way of life?
- emodendroket 5y ago> Racism isn't the point, crippling the Russian state is. Assuming anything else smells like bad faith. One incident related in the story is someone slipping malware into a node library which appears, among other collateral damage, to have deleted the archives one NPO had collected of the war hoping to document Russian war crimes. So really I'm not sold on it being that different.
- smsm42 5y agoDo you have a link describing which NPO was that and what exactly happened?
- emodendroket 5y agohttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/308 https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/308 Draw your own conclusions about authenticity but it doesn't sound implausible.
- smsm42 5y agoAnonymous post without any details... Yeah, I smell some substance that comes out of a bull.