Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers The Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) has claimed that Russian cyberspies are targeting its servers looking for data about alleged Kremlin-backed war crimes. According to the analysis, which covers Russia's evolving cyber tactics during the first half of 2023, espionage …
Indeed. Stoll famously used one in the mid-1980s, and of course outside networked computer systems they go back probably to the earliest days of anything resembling military intelligence.
Quite happy to help if they need some realistic looking data.
No real need. Perhaps Russia was looking for evidence concerning the deaths of Daniel Burke and Jordan Chadwick. Perhaps they were looking for data on Ukraine's cloning program that allowed Zelensky to give a speech in the UN, with his clone in the audience. Perhaps they were looking for evidence on influence campaigns used in Canada that meant their Parliament gave standing ovations to a Ukrainian who 'fought the Russians' during WW2. None of the Canadians seemed to stop and think that Russia was an ally during WW2, so if this guy was fighting against them...
But procedurally, the defence team for any war crime, or crime in general should be given access to the evidence the prosecution intends to use against them in order to prepare a defence. Sometimes that may be unecessary, eg when drone units post video to YT of them killing surrendered soldiers. But Ukraine's criminal process seems to work a bit differently to the rest of the world. Much as their electoral process. Foreign intelligence agencies gathering intelligence doesn't seem very suprising though.
This clone ... how old was it?
Strange thing about cloning. If it was like Dolly, the organs would be roughly the donor's age. Was a great example of 'fake news' and media manipulation though. Zelensky speaking to a mostly empty chamber, so Ukraine's media folks decided to fill in the blanks with some old footage. Which included the Ukrainian delegation, including Zelensky. Such is the power of propaganda, and trust.
Sure, defence teams should be given access to prosecution information. That occurs at the point that an accused person is brought before a court, and the defendant and their lawyer are passed the evidence bundle. It isn't proper for a possible future defendant to go hacking into other people's databases in order to find out what they might know, and then perhaps take the opportunity to obscure that evidence, or even to interfere with witnesses.
I'll note that any court dealing with war crimes in the current context is unlikely to be in Ukraine - it's much more likely to be the International Criminal Court.
I'll note that any court dealing with war crimes in the current context is unlikely to be in Ukraine - it's much more likely to be the International Criminal Court.
Depends. Both Ukraine and Russia have already held 'war crimes' trials and both sides call the other's show trials. Both sides claim to have evidence of thousands of 'war crimes', and the quality of the judicial systems are questioned. So perhaps a Nuremberg-style, neutral court would be the best solution. Then again, members of the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, aka Ukraine's Galicia Division avoided Nuremberg, de-Nazification and thus were free to engage in Ukrainian and Canadian politics.
Well, if they were looking for signs of you being intelligent, they were wasting their time.
Yeh, thumbs down from the Canadians and Banderites, eh? But there's an old parable about the boy how cried wolf(sangel). If Ukraine lies about so much, what does that say about the credibility of our leaders, and media? Russia intelligence might be hacking an opponent during an armed conflict.. This is newsworthy? I guess after one of Ukraine's official spox talked about hunting down anyone critical of the Ukrainian regime, journalists might be reluctant to report, especially given the 'kill list' and assassinations of journalists already conducted by Ukraine.
They are scraping the bottom of the barrel, so his turn will come.
Ukraine has lowered it's recruiting standards several times, so your turn will likely come sooner, you good little trawniki.
But on the subject of war crimes. Poland released the results of their investigation into the deaths of two of it's civilians a year ago. It found they were killed by a Ukrainian missile. This was the missile attack that Ukraine insisted was a Russian missile, even though it would have been impossible for a Russian air defence missile to reach that fire. Then of course our media leapt on this and used the meme that Russia was using S-200/300 missiles in a ground attack role. But Zelensky jumped on the opportunity to blame Russia and demand more NATO intervention, aka WW3.
Misguided missiles are just one of those things, and accidents happen. Sometimes. The safety systems in S-200/300 missiles are, after all supposed to destroy the missile on a failed intercept. If Ukraine had admitted the truth, it, along with it's loyal supporters might have more credibility now.
And is being as effective as their invading troops
Hey, at least unlike Canada, or the angry thumbs, I know my history. Unlike others-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66926400
Russia's Defence Ministry has released a video showing the Black Sea Fleet's commander at a conference, despite Ukraine claiming to have killed him.
Perhaps instead of assassinating journalists, faking videos and fabricating evidence, Ukraine's SBU should try using some intelligence. So after lobbing missiles and drones into Sevastapol, did they really think Russia's officers would stay working inside the building marked on the map as 'Fleet HQ'? Or move into any of the many hardened shelters in and around Crimea that make it so valuable as a base? I guess when you're not paying for your missiles though, wasting them on PR stunts like this makes a certain sense. Too bad about the retaliation strikes, or lack of reporting on the removal of one of Odessa's major landmarks.
The Eel's output seems to have suffered a marked drop in quality in recent days. There used to be some sensible sounding arguments there. I can't believe I just read about Ukraine having a secret cloning program...
I guess we need to worry when Ukraine's army start wearing all white body armour...
They are going to be the world's leading experts in computer security, having dealt with a multi year sustained attack by an adversary that's probably tops in the world at breaking into computers. All the world's best cybersecurity companies and research will be based in Ukraine for a generation "thanks" to Russia.
That's a big industry, and will help begin the process of getting their economy back on its feet with something that can happen quickly, since rebuilding all the industry that Putin is destroying will take years no matter how much help the west provides in making that happen.
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