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>Would Russia be wrong to commit acts of war against this person? >If lives were lost as a result, would Russia be wrong to use lethal force against the mainta
by rosndo 5y ago
>Would Russia be wrong to commit acts of war against this person?
>If lives were lost as a result, would Russia be wrong to use lethal force against the maintainer?
Yeah, unless they want to admit that they’ve been waging war against the entire western world by allowing their homegrown ransomware groups to operate with impunity.
If we go by your logic, Western countries should have turned Moscow into a giant glass parking lot after NotPetya, a destructive wiper worm released by the Russian government targeting the entire world.
Luckily you’re alone with your thinking.
- efitz 5y agoApparently not, guy got swatted. [1] And there are levels of warfare between "nothing" and "nuclear", in case you hadn't noticed. And North Korea and China are doing state-sponsored attacks against US targets, commercial and government and military. It's not clear to me that NoPetya was state sponsored, it's ransomware. The RF is not a bastion of law enforcement and justice; I agree that they do a terrible job of controlling organized crime activities, both cyber and non-cyber. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypeek/open-source-sabotage-node-ipc-wipe-russia-belraus-computers https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypeek/open-source-sabotage-...