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

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68722542

46•Lyngbakr•5mo ago

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billy99k•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo ago

In wars it's important who started first. In Russia-Ukraine war this is quite clear.

krunck•5mo ago

Please, expand on your thesis.

vardump•5mo ago

To state the obvious: Russia started the war.

Defletter•5mo ago

You may be surprised by the amount of people who dispute this... it's depraved

popularrecluse•5mo ago

Yeah, that's war in a nutshell.

clint•5mo ago

Welcome to Planet Earth

avmich•5mo 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•5mo ago

Illegal under which legal system? International law mostly allows countries to fight back against invasion.

lm28469•5mo ago

Wait until you learn killing is legal during wartime... Absolutely revolting

toss1•5mo 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•5mo 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.

r721•5mo ago

(2024)

generj•5mo ago

Digital letters of marque ought to be a thing.

cosmicgadget•5mo ago

Yeah this is more privateering than vigilantism.

ChrisArchitect•5mo ago

(2024)

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

more_corn•5mo ago

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

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