Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parliament

Re:Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parl... by luckylion on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:14PM (#24769113)

There's also the simple fact that nobody wants to set a strong precedent because everybody is doing it. The US was spying on Merkel, Germany's BND was caught spying on Turkey, Turkey was caught spying in Germany (and pretty-much-caught assassinating Kurdish French citizens in France) etc pp, Norway spies on Russia, Russia spies on Norway.

That's normal. Of course each one is unhappy when it's done to them, but nobody wants to do anything about it, because it might be done to them as well.

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Re:Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parl... by znpy on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:24PM (#24769223)

Althought one might argue that spying is one thing while attacking/sabotaging is another thing.

I might tolerate you peeking through my window into my house from time to time to try and understand what i'm up to.

I wouldn't tolerate you burning my house down to prevent me from doing my stuff.

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Re:Norway officially accuses Russia for cyberattacks on parl... by luckylion on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:49PM (#24769563)

That's true, but I believe this incident was espionage, not an attack with destructive intention. Spies usually don't want your email server to stop working, because they'd lose access to your emails and you'd notice something is up.

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