Bah, no you're not; you just hacked that.
If you're a fan of the Wichowski Siblings then you may recall the quote "You cannot kill an idea" from V for Vendetta (and also the silly mask). They use this to demonstrate and inspire the power of cellular, decentralized activism.
I'm confused by this, are you referring to Lulzsec specifically? I've never heard Anonymous framed as leftist, and I'm certain that not everyone involved in pre-2011 hacktivism, such as Project Chanology[0], are in prison.
It's not like they have disrupted in field command and control, communications, etc of the attacking forces. It's not like they've shud down the power to the offices of those in charge, or taken over Putin's personal bank accounts, or anything useful at all.
Do the people of Ukraine benefit at all from this? Does this show NATO leaders that they have no backbone?
I don't see how Anonymous is concerned with NATO at all.
> What's the point?
Someone in Russia will have to deal with it, probably intelligent, technically skilled people which would be more useful elsewhere. It causes Russia to loose face. If any critical services run through this then to might impact ground operation (although the Russian army seems to use print outs a lot).
Yeah? And? So? What? Western business IT personnel have to deal with this on a daily basis from Russian based operatives. It doesn't really mean too much, as they are staffed for this anyways.
I think it's all funny, but nothing serious. Any attempt to promote this as anything more than an annoyance to people that have no importantance to the actual matter at hand of a bully invading another sovereign country is just juvenile.
For the record, I am not advocating one way or another, but I just want to point that 'just doing something' may be counter-productive.
Except just leave the infrastructure locked permanently or at least until Russia withdraws.
All this is doing is causing some Russian IT group of people to do extra work. These IT people may not even be supporting Putin's decision.
From past experience with military-spec software development, it’s usually highly redundant and isolated. The operating systems are often real-time Linux-based ones (at least the ones I was exposed to).
If there’s Windows running there somewhere, it’s unlikely it’s in a critical system.
I used to think that as well but I recall a time when a bunch of US tanks were blue-screening and that in effect disabled navigation or something to that effect. Maybe I can find those old articles. But you are probably right. If it were possible someone probably would have done it by now.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-our-new-aircraft-carriers...
but I believe it is completely isolated/air gapped.
http://vkrosse2.ru/proxy/browse.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmil.ru%2...
How does taking sites offline free people of censorship?
Censorship is essentially never just the act of censoring, it's typically a larger program in action and almost always includes state propaganda filling the vacuum they create after they censor. They're taking down, or trying to take down, some of the fill-in propaganda that the Russians will otherwise be receiving domestically or that the state machinery will otherwise be pushing outward (eg via RT) for foreign audience consumption.
If you want to combat censorship, you'd also ideally want to target the propaganda delivery methods they're using to replace free information.
Stripping the situation back to vacuum would be better than just leaving the Russian state propaganda to fill in the vacuum. That'd be a win.
(I realize I have a bias towards U.S. style free speech. Maybe censorship is best for other cultures. I am still unconvinced.)
The people in the video are complaining about it:
– It’s all of them [channels]?
– Yep
– Damn
[1] : https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022/5
[2] : https://mobile.twitter.com/hexdefined/status/149732755266667...
[3] : https://web.archive.org/web/20220225193536/https://twitter.c...
I am more than sure Putin’s army has been preparing for all scenarios for years.
