Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by spijdar on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:52PM (#27186122)

> Not to mention them not knowing basic facts like Moldova and Romania being in fact 2 separate independent countries.

Maybe this is from a language barrier/confusion? I know that the modern state of Romania comes from a union of the Wallachian/Transylvanian/Moldavian principalities, and modern Moldova originates from part of the historical Moldavian principality which the USSR forced independent Romania to secede (?).

I think the Moldavian would refer to themselves as "Romanians" as a group of people, unless emphasizing the particular government/nationality? I know this is probably a controversial topic, I really don't know much about the modern geopolitical status there, just speculating why the article may conflate Romanian and Moldova.

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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by gigel82 on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:04PM (#27187005)

Oh, you're totally giving the author too much credit to assume they know the history of Romania.

I bet it just stems from a lack of reading comprehension. Moldova has 2 keyboard layouts (Romanian and Russian) according to the screenshot posted in the article, so I presume they just read "Romanian" which vaguely sounded like a country name they sometime read about, and chucked it into the list.

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Re:Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate by notdang on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:59PM (#27186916)

You are absolutely right. The point here is that it's difficult to take the author's geopolitical claims seriously, when he is easily confused by Romania/Moldova duality.

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