Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin

> If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated "on mission" for a couple of months....At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE.

Really? I though RT was part of Russia's foreign propaganda effort, so I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on domestic news consumption. IIRC, actually Russians get their news from domestic outlets like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia-1 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_Russia.

This is good news, but mainly because it interferes with Russia's foreign propaganda operations around this attack.

No, Russians use telegram groups for this kind of thing, and if they are not savvy they will use VK

Soldiers do not go into action with their phones. That's OPSEC 101.

That's why we see so many smartphone recordings made by civilians, but not by the military.

I am assuming the only information a solider will receive is from their commanding officer and their comrades. If they haven't seen alternate explanations by now, I have no particular reason to believe they suddenly will.

The secrecy could be explained that they didn’t want the invasion plans leaked by low level operations. Apple does the same thing with new products, with different teams working in isolation on a need to know basis. Clearly the army now knows exactly what they are doing and where they are, and they’re still doing it.

Now lets put you in their shoes. All your usual news sources are gone and you get the perspective from foreign news that the entity you represent is the aggressor, would that be convincing to you?

> tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated

Most likely they are lying to look more sympathetic - there is a video of a Ukrainian soldier asking questions to a captured tank crew member. He said "We were told we are doing exercises". Ukrainian solder responded "I've hearing the same shit since 2014"

Strength to you there!

the world is on your side if not at your side just yet... hopefully putin gets deposed and someone more like your leader gets installed

Stay safe, and good luck to your friends.

Don't give up friend!

Things move slowly but they move!

Germans allow German weapons to be sent to you, Dutch will send. Poland is sending truckloads.

I've already been looking up Norwegian politicians this morning to ask them to somehow get rid of their old law to not export weapons to countries at war (I think it was meant to be against profiting from war, not to prevent helping, in which case maybe it would be OK if they sent it for free? Norway has some seriously good weapons tech so it could help.)

I got an offer the other day that I normally wouldn't take but will possibly take anyway to help oil&gas/defense.

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Russian athletes will be banned from competitions. Champions League finals will not be in St. Petersburg, World Cup Skiing final will not be in Russia etc.

The mental health of so many people watching powerlessly is also worth something. This gives anyone a chance of doing something. It might help very little, but it _is_ at least a grain of sand in the machine of death.

P.S. I'd encourage you to have a look at the js source code before opening this page. It seems to be relatively clean, readable and straightforward indeed.

Here's an alternative, that includes a bit more infrastructure, that potentially participates in the military supply chains + state-owned social networks: https://lostmsu.github.io/hack_russia/

You can also easily fork it: https://github.com/lostmsu/lostmsu.github.io

The response for / has its Server header set to ddos-guard. Looks like they've moved to commercial solutions.

To be fair the second panel be more like: "Someone found an open window in the CIA's poster-printing factory and used it to gum up the cogs in one of the conveyor belts."

I dunno, it's a bit different when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare. It's more like "hackers incapacitate CIA mind control device".

It's an open-pseudonym, has gone through many iterations. For all we know sometimes Anonymous is the FBI.

That's the beauty of Anonymous, isn't it? It's a hydra.

Probably it's the NSA dressed as Anonymous, but honestly who cares. Keep DDOSing, whoever is behind this.

Where are all these white supremacist terrorists and what evidence is there that the FBI gives them a pass?

The labelling is overboard.

Hacktivists are not white hat hackers. They are black or grey and justify actions with personal morally. Judge each case by it's own merits. A lot of regular people get treated as terrorists when they do things like hack their school.

I haven't ever heard of white supremacist terrorist. I've heard of terrorist, I've heard of white supremacist, but I don't think the groups bi-sect. What is the last white supremacist terror attack you remember?

Anonymous doesn't really have any political allegiance and doesn't do things for the reasons you think they do them. Most of those videos are made by non-technical people and are basic propaganda - and that's a big part in shielding Anonymous from too much federal heat. The people actually doing the work are mostly there for the laughs and clout. Second, Anonymous is mostly decentralized, much like terrorist networks. They gather on image boards you're probably detestful of and post messages on plain sight alongside a stream of repulsive content. They also splinter themselves across various IRC networks and now probably use more modern decentralized encrypted comms. That makes them difficult to track.

Taking down internet websites isn't anywhere close to "fight against Russian tanks and troops"