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Unsurprisingly Yandex say that this was detected early, no damage was done and no user data was accessed via the hacking.

Obviously that rings hollow... but, I wonder, what kind of security protocol do high gov officials in RU use, do they follow better security hygiene than the West?

This release coincides with G20 meetings. Intentional or happenstance?

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No one follows good security hygiene anywhere. It's certainly not a cultural thing.

Almost sounds like a sci-fi thing. A species that has evolved to experience physiological disgust at the idea of doing insecure things.

Battlestar Galactica, more or less

We're all safe if none of us get seduced by sleezy suspicious sexy cylons

Avoid Tinder

wasn’t it the case that only one ship survived the cylons? and it was because the ship was ancient and lacked computerized management?

It wasn't so much the lack of computerized management as it was the lack of connections to the rest of the outside world.

My recollection is that even the individual areas of the ship were not networked with each other at all, so the whole ship relies on humans to relay commands around. The whole ship was designed this way to fight Cylons, and indeed had beat them. The Cylons were thought extinct, so the new generation of ships were all networked and thoroughly pwned as soon as the Cylons reappeared.

https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/Galactica

Something like this maybe?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

;)

I could swear there was something recent I've read about determining which keys are being pushed by hearing the sound of the keyboard...

Are you thinking of this recent paper about acoustic side channel attacks on smartphones?

Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones (http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11137)

Oh wow! This wasn't the one I was talking about, but very cool nonetheless. It's similar, but with keyboards. I hate posting this without evidence, but I think there was also something having to do with watching a plant or a pane of glass vibrate to know what is being said inside a room. The keyboard noise and the vibrations may also be unrelated. If I can find these articles, I'll come back and post them here.

I have a bad habit of mumbling to myself what I am typing, when there is nobody around, sometimes I will even read aloud what I just typed back to make sure it makes sense.

If I was to use a Typewriter, you could probably put a recording device inside it and work out what I was writing about that way.

Yeh it was used many times during the Cold War by both sides.

Heh. But do they stay true to that protocol?

As far as I know, Putin says that he doesn't use mobile phones and computers. Can it be considered a security measure? Other officials, like PM Medvedev, are better with technology and had their devices hacked: [1]

Regarding Yandex, they have good talents there so what they say might be true.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/dmitry-medvede...

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