I agree it’s not great but when Russia has repeatedly used the excuse of protecting Russian speaking citizens as a justification for invasion I kind of get it.
I agree it’s not great but when Russia has repeatedly used the excuse of protecting Russian speaking citizens as a justification for invasion I kind of get it.While I find Russia behavior disgusting; this behavior isn't much better; esp. because it calls out a specific subset of foreign people residing in the country.
Modern Russia would just make it manned and send them with a radio.Yes but for most of those landing was not the goal of the mission.
It’s still an impressive technological achievement by the USSR and it should go without saying that space exploration is really hard, but it took them a ton of attempts to get much of anything back.
That is everything I would say and more.Good article
Beyond Ukraine’s Offensive
The West needs to prepare the country’s military for a long war.www.foreignaffairs.com
One of the problems for Russia is that they've been launching just incredible amounts of cyberattacks against Ukraine since 2014. For example a record setting DDOS in 2014, significant portions of their power grid were disrupted in 2015 and then again in 2016. That taught and the reinforced some harsh lessons for Ukraine over the many years since then. Given that, despite notable exceptions like Solarwinds, most cyberwarfare is heavily facilitated by a lack of security education, laziness and cheapness, it gave Ukraine a lot of time and motivation to make the changes necessary to really harden their environments. Part of the reason we see so many breaches in the US is that IT Security is more of a cost center than regular IT and is just downright inconvenient. So education efforts stall or are small in scale, those servers and computers stay unpatched or unsupported and that software remains in the environment because it would be too expensive or disruptive to revenue to do otherwise. (Although the US government has really been stepping up their requirements (New NIST and CMMC) along with more resources from the FBI and CISA to help)Yes, yes . . . yes it is.
And I was one of those who also thought otherwise. What really surprises me is that Russia is not dominating, or at least doing more damage, in the cyber warfare realm. I actually thought they were masters of it.
While I find Russia behavior disgusting; this behavior isn't much better; esp. because it calls out a specific subset of foreign people residing in the country.
The UK has previously said that it will supply Ukraine with long-range weapons, this will now include a number of Storm Shadow missiles. The British Government has been clear that this is only in response to Russia’s deliberate targeting of civilian national infrastructure and is a proportionate response,” a Western official told CNN.
The Storm Shadow is a long-range cruise missile with stealth capabilities, jointly developed by the UK and France, which is typically launched from the air. With a firing range in excess of 250km, or 155 miles, it is just short of the 185-mile range capability of the US-made surface-to-surface Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, that Ukraine has long asked for.
Always have to treat what Yevgeney is saying with a healthy amount of wait and see.
First, the UK has set a great precedent here - sending long range weapons because Russia is targeting civilians. A very defensible position to take.
Second, the US can use that same precedent to justify sending ATACAMS and other longer range weapons.
The UK also sees Crimea as part of Ukraine occupied be the Russians - so it’s fair game for western supplied weapons - according to the report.
If the UA can take the south West Bank of the Azov sea - kiss the Kerch bridge goodbye.
First, the UK has set a great precedent here - sending long range weapons because Russia is targeting civilians. A very defensible position to take.
Second, the US can use that same precedent to justify sending ATACAMS and other longer range weapons.
The UK also sees Crimea as part of Ukraine occupied be the Russians - so it’s fair game for western supplied weapons - according to the report.
If the UA can take the south West Bank of the Azov sea - kiss the Kerch bridge goodbye.
Just saw this. Apparently, our cyber counter-intel did good!One of the problems for Russia is that they've been launching just incredible amounts of cyberattacks against Ukraine since 2014. For example a record setting DDOS in 2014, significant portions of their power grid were disrupted in 2015 and then again in 2016. That taught and the reinforced some harsh lessons for Ukraine over the many years since then. Given that, despite notable exceptions like Solarwinds, most cyberwarfare is heavily facilitated by a lack of security education, laziness and cheapness, it gave Ukraine a lot of time and motivation to make the changes necessary to really harden their environments. Part of the reason we see so many breaches in the US is that IT Security is more of a cost center than regular IT and is just downright inconvenient. So education efforts stall or are small in scale, those servers and computers stay unpatched or unsupported and that software remains in the environment because it would be too expensive or disruptive to revenue to do otherwise. (Although the US government has really been stepping up their requirements (New NIST and CMMC) along with more resources from the FBI and CISA to help)
The invasion also stripped a lot of the protections and revenue streams Russian groups were afforded as Western countries were trying to maintain more cordial relationships with Russia. If you don't have companies operating in Russia and your citizens aren't heating their homes with Russian gas you start caring a lot less what Russia thinks about you more aggressively targeting hackers operating out of Russia. I have no doubt Ukraine has also been inviting a lot of partnerships with governments and leading security firms to help with mutual benefits all around.
Going forward I suspect the brain drain in Russia is really going to hamper their ability to operate in this space esp when you juxtapose it with the US which really picked up its focus and investments in cyber security. They'd probably need to spend a lot more to retain or get talent and I doubt we're going back to playing on the tilted field we were on prior to the invasion
You mean leopards?Russians having kittens on Telegram about supposed western MBTs moving to the border in Belgorod direction lol.
He’s still there! My job prospects remain intact.It appears they went somewhere.