Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source
by efitz on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:19PM
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Apparently not, guy got swatted. [1]
And there are levels of warfare between "nothing" and "nuclear", in case you hadn't noticed. And North Korea and China are doing state-sponsored attacks against US targets, commercial and government and military. It's not clear to me that NoPetya was state sponsored, it's ransomware. The RF is not a bastion of law enforcement and justice; I agree that they do a terrible job of controlling organized crime activities, both cyber and non-cyber.
And there are levels of warfare between "nothing" and "nuclear", in case you hadn't noticed. And North Korea and China are doing state-sponsored attacks against US targets, commercial and government and military. It's not clear to me that NoPetya was state sponsored, it's ransomware. The RF is not a bastion of law enforcement and justice; I agree that they do a terrible job of controlling organized crime activities, both cyber and non-cyber.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypeek/open-source-sabotage-...