YHK - yet another hacker news clone

I beg you pardon. I'm not cheap, but I'm also not employed. You want cheap so you get it.

(Joking)

>Kiev

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What's stopping them from doing these right now? Script kiddies have basically reverse engineered the PS5 at that point, do you think state actors need better models?

What do you expect UN Security Council to do here, really? Two of the permanent members are waging offensive wars without cause, and Russia keeps vetoing anything about Ukraine, and the US keeps vetoing anything about Gaza/Israel and Iran. What exactly could they realistically do, in your opinion?

Russia can withdraw today and all the fighting would stop immediately.

>All these sabotage acts will continue across the globe to drag more countries into the mix.

Russia can choose to stop these sabotage acts immediately.

>What is the UN Security council doing?. Nobody hears their efforts to stop anything

Russia doesn't need anyone's permission to stop the war immediately.

(But also, Russia is a founder and permanent member of the UNSC, so...)

The UN is a discussion forum, imagine "Reddit for countries". It's useful to coordinate some global actions like vaccines and stop small fights, but anyone with nukes can ignore it.

Echoing what everyone else is saying:

The UN Security council has no effective power over the five permanent members (or those countries a permanent member wishes to protect). Of course it is doing nothing against Russia, USA, China, UK or France; it can't.

Eh, that'll take care of itself when the sump pump loses power.

Hence we need alternatives. P2P wireless (and wired) networks Freifunk, Guifi and NYCMesh are three that works today, in practice and in the real world. Contribute to them, learn from them, replicate them elsewhere, where you live.

We need more distribution for the sake of redundancy. Less large data centres and hyper scalers, more servers in a back office somewhere.

The internet itself is less of a problem. It’s where most of the traffic goes that is the problem.

See "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll

Imagine being a tech luddite. Flip phone, old PC you boot every time you want to use it, no internet presence.

You got to get produce on your bike and there's none because the fucking internet. This is the type of shit that tips people over the edge and go full Kaczynski.

Or if you're like me, maniacally laugh at the absurdity of over complicating basic infra.

We're about to hit a series of important elections as well (Spain, France, I think Germany soon as well?), hybrid warfare is supposed to influence in favor of extreme parties.

It's a major issue. On paper NATO can mop the floor with Russia even without the US backing, but nobody in a first world country wants to die in a ditch, and the endgame there is also unclear because Russia can play the nuke card if they're too threatened.

It's a perfect 'get out of jail free' card for any sufficiently complicated screw up.

Though the US did most of the heavy lifting on undermining NATO for Russia already, so these grey zone attacks are just building on that.

The capabilities of AI are bringing the power to exploit those a larger audience (where before it was in the limited hands of nation states and other well-funded organizations, hacker groups, and a comparatively few talented individuals).

I agree it's problematic in practice, but I'm hopeful this will catalyze everyone to be a hell of a lot more disciplined in hardening their products and platforms.

Also banks are more likely to take basic security seriously and not leave core services open to the public internet, even if the code itself is full of bugs.

On the other hand, running old software where the code is publicly available, on hardware connected to the internet - you are cooked

The main thing that changed is geopolitics. Putin is getting desperate and European attacks without full casus belli are getting messier and messier.