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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by skrebbel on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:39PM (#27185996)
He also cites Romania as having a particularly great relationship with Russia, which is neither true (they're in NATO and the EU and mostly West focused) nor relevant (the Romanian keyboard layout wasn't even listed, only the Moldovan variety).

We can choose to assume that he omitted the nuance you're adding (eg for brevity), or that he has no clue. I'd say most evidence points to the latter. Which is sad because I often enjoy his blog a lot.

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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by cure on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:47PM (#27186083)
> (the Romanian keyboard layout wasn't even listed, only the Moldovan variety).

This makes sense. Moldova, like the Ukraine, has a significant portion of the population that identifies as Russian. Romania does not.

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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by skrebbel on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:26PM (#27186474)
Yes it does, but it looks to me like Krebs read "Romanian" in the list of keyboard layouts, skimmed over the "(Moldova)" part and assumed that that means Romania and Russia are BFFs.
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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by kelnos on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:05PM (#27187016)
Which is a shame, but can we really expect everyone to be up on all the various nuances of geopolitics? It's an unfortunate error, but I think an understandable one, and it doesn't undercut the point of the article.
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