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Yandex top managers are running away from Russia as their government forcing them to spread hate. They alter their news, search results as government asks. Thei

by maxdo 4y ago

Yandex top managers are running away from Russia as their government forcing them to spread hate. They alter their news, search results as government asks. Their tech including DB's is used for military use and is one of backbone companies that keep this bloody regime to run. No matter how good this product is , Yandex as company is extremely toxic. Contributing to this product you are indirectly contribute in killing people. They are advertising ( online ) recruitment process of an extremely poor and depressed regions to go and fight in ukraine. They are one of the major propaganda engine of a regime who combined 18th century imperialist where they are excited to capture new territories and praise it will be good for their isolated economy. 80% of Russians Support war. Hence yandex as company is in charge of something even more frightful actions. They are actually hate ukrainains getting to the level of nazzis that considered some the west european countries a broken version of Germans. To compare. Soviet Union had thousands of Schools in ukrainian, printed good quality books in Ukrainian, they only didn't tolerate politics. Russians don't recognize ukraine as a nation with any rights and opened educational camps. The first thing they do on captured territories they destroy Ukrainain books, schools materials and any relations with culture. They import brainwashed teachers from Russia and forcefully educate kids. School Teachers are backbone of their regime. Guess who provide them software? Yandex . Yandex software is definitely used to run filtration camps, forcefully re-educate kids from their native language into Russian and other things no one could imagine would exist in 21st century. So no, this is not yet another proxy war between two big powers. This a war of reborn 18th century imperialism combined with fascist way of mobilizing russian people. Is up to you to support their project or not, but one day this new world order can come into your house.

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jillesvangurp 4y ago
Here's a nice article by the Moscow times about how Putin's regime relies on Russian engineers to build out it's surveillance and censorship apparatus: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-zima-a78431 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-... Yandex is very much a part of this strategy. It started out as a domestic competitor to Google and as Russia has been banning and censoring Google and other foreign services domestically, it became more important. So, this parent comment while obviously very political given current circumstances, is actually very on topic. Yandex is part of the information war on the ground in the Ukraine right now. And not just the Ukraine. Russia's sphere of influence spreads quite wide. A few practical considerations: - Would you use native libraries like this as part of your architecture that are controlled by people with a history of infiltrating e.g. voting machines, infrastructure used by media companies, etc. Believe what you will but that would be solid no for me just from a security point of view. There's just no way to know what piggybacks along with that code base. - Given the above, would you contribute to such a project and help the people behind it and further their goals? I'm sure it's technically great stuff, but no thanks.
- ghostwriter 4y ago
  > There's just no way to know what piggybacks along with that code base. Thanks for openly admitting your technical incompetence in the domain.
  - jillesvangurp 4y ago
    Well, there seem to be a lot of fools that end up with potential C/C++ based exploits in their infrastructure. Sourcing your C++ libraries from sources infamous for making use of such exploits seems foolish, and indeed incompetent.

by maxdo 4y ago

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jillesvangurp 4y ago

Here's a nice article by the Moscow times about how Putin's regime relies on Russian engineers to build out it's surveillance and censorship apparatus: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-zima-a78431 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-... Yandex is very much a part of this strategy. It started out as a domestic competitor to Google and as Russia has been banning and censoring Google and other foreign services domestically, it became more important. So, this parent comment while obviously very political given current circumstances, is actually very on topic. Yandex is part of the information war on the ground in the Ukraine right now. And not just the Ukraine. Russia's sphere of influence spreads quite wide. A few practical considerations: - Would you use native libraries like this as part of your architecture that are controlled by people with a history of infiltrating e.g. voting machines, infrastructure used by media companies, etc. Believe what you will but that would be solid no for me just from a security point of view. There's just no way to know what piggybacks along with that code base. - Given the above, would you contribute to such a project and help the people behind it and further their goals? I'm sure it's technically great stuff, but no thanks.

ghostwriter 4y ago
> There's just no way to know what piggybacks along with that code base. Thanks for openly admitting your technical incompetence in the domain.
- jillesvangurp 4y ago
  Well, there seem to be a lot of fools that end up with potential C/C++ based exploits in their infrastructure. Sourcing your C++ libraries from sources infamous for making use of such exploits seems foolish, and indeed incompetent.