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Ukraine gives award to foreign vigilantes for hacks on Russia (2024)

46 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago

billy99k 1y ago
Seems typical: illegal actions against people you don't like? win an award. illegal actions against people you like? we need prison time and sanctions.
- jszymborski 1y ago
  I think it's a bit of bad faith to characterize "aggressor in an unprovoked, expansionist war against your country and who has killed or wounded 400,000 of your countrymen" as simply "people you don't like".
  - avmich 1y ago
    In wars it's important who started first. In Russia-Ukraine war this is quite clear.
    - krunck 1y ago
      Please, expand on your thesis.
      - vardump 1y ago
        To state the obvious: Russia started the war.
        Defletter 1y ago
        You may be surprised by the amount of people who dispute this... it's depraved
- popularrecluse 1y ago
  Yeah, that's war in a nutshell.
- clint 1y ago
  Welcome to Planet Earth
- avmich 1y ago
  It's like tipping somebody on wanted list versus resisting masked government official, something like ICE. We absolutely need to level the playing field here.
- tim333 1y ago
  Illegal under which legal system? International law mostly allows countries to fight back against invasion.
- lm28469 1y ago
  Wait until you learn killing is legal during wartime... Absolutely revolting
toss1 1y ago
I hope Kristopher Kortright stays well. He's done great work here. But it seems a major OpSec flaw to allow one's identity to be publicized after cracking into the wartime systems of a genocidally aggressive state known for epidemic levels of "window cancer" and killing people on other nations territory using exotic and non-exotic means (polonium tes, nerve agents, or just dozens of bullets and running over with at truck, all well-publicized Russian murders)...
- Barrin92 1y ago
  As an American citizen you're pretty safe. I don't think there's even a single record of an American being targeted on American soil. They tend to only go after their own for diplomatic reasons. That said I think regardless there's a lot of value seeing ordinary people stand up to dictators because frankly that's what you need given the increasing tendency to intimidate people in civic life.
  - baybal2 1y ago
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-peregrine- 1y ago
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r721 1y ago
(2024)
generj 1y ago
Digital letters of marque ought to be a thing.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago
  Yeah this is more privateering than vigilantism.
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ChrisArchitect 1y ago
(2024) More recently, local hackers awarded by military also (March 2025) https://therecord.media/ukraine-intel-service-honors-civilian-hackers-with-military-award https://therecord.media/ukraine-intel-service-honors-civilia...
more_corn 1y ago
They should open up drone control operations to volunteers who want to help out.

46 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago

Seems typical: illegal actions against people you don't like? win an award. illegal actions against people you like? we need prison time and sanctions.

jszymborski 1y ago
I think it's a bit of bad faith to characterize "aggressor in an unprovoked, expansionist war against your country and who has killed or wounded 400,000 of your countrymen" as simply "people you don't like".
- avmich 1y ago
  In wars it's important who started first. In Russia-Ukraine war this is quite clear.
  - krunck 1y ago
    Please, expand on your thesis.
    - vardump 1y ago
      To state the obvious: Russia started the war.
      - Defletter 1y ago
        You may be surprised by the amount of people who dispute this... it's depraved
popularrecluse 1y ago
Yeah, that's war in a nutshell.
clint 1y ago
Welcome to Planet Earth
avmich 1y ago
It's like tipping somebody on wanted list versus resisting masked government official, something like ICE. We absolutely need to level the playing field here.
tim333 1y ago
Illegal under which legal system? International law mostly allows countries to fight back against invasion.
lm28469 1y ago
Wait until you learn killing is legal during wartime... Absolutely revolting

toss1 1y ago

I hope Kristopher Kortright stays well. He's done great work here. But it seems a major OpSec flaw to allow one's identity to be publicized after cracking into the wartime systems of a genocidally aggressive state known for epidemic levels of "window cancer" and killing people on other nations territory using exotic and non-exotic means (polonium tes, nerve agents, or just dozens of bullets and running over with at truck, all well-publicized Russian murders)...

Barrin92 1y ago
As an American citizen you're pretty safe. I don't think there's even a single record of an American being targeted on American soil. They tend to only go after their own for diplomatic reasons. That said I think regardless there's a lot of value seeing ordinary people stand up to dictators because frankly that's what you need given the increasing tendency to intimidate people in civic life.
- baybal2 1y ago
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-peregrine- 1y ago

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r721 1y ago

(2024)

generj 1y ago

Digital letters of marque ought to be a thing.

cosmicgadget 1y ago
Yeah this is more privateering than vigilantism.

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ChrisArchitect 1y ago

(2024) More recently, local hackers awarded by military also (March 2025) https://therecord.media/ukraine-intel-service-honors-civilian-hackers-with-military-award https://therecord.media/ukraine-intel-service-honors-civilia...

more_corn 1y ago

They should open up drone control operations to volunteers who want to help out.