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My proposal is the Western world do more to support the Ukrainian military, defeat the Putin regime militarily, and usher in the collapse of the russian federation.

You can't have state-sponsored cyber-attacks if the state sponsoring the cyber-attacks goes away.

No, I am not proposing anyone start killing children. What a ridiculous misinterpretation of my words. It's the russian military who kill kids[0], and nobody should be ok with that. It's also the russian government recruiting children to commit acts of sabotage[1] abroad.

[0]: https://www.politico.eu/article/former-wagner-group-commande...

[1]: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/147402-ukraine-fsb-recruits-t...

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I generally agree with your stance about the situation in eastern Europe, but there's no particular reason to connect that to this incident. There's no public evidence that this was state-sponsored or even connected to Russia at all. They definitely provide sponsorship and cover to a lot of attacks, but still are not the only source of online crime. We have plenty in the US and the UK and everywhere else.

Yup, I find I hard to believe kids have suddenly discovered hacking in the last two years.

It's either covertly state sponsored, or outsourcing everything to India is finally showing some results.

You know more than one thing can be true at once though right?

I.e.some combination of state sponsored, opportunistic script kiddies and better reporting. After the earlier attacks subsequent ones get more press as well.

What's state sponsored about a bunch of bored children putting in dummy calls to retail helpdesks?

I dont see what this has to do with russia russia russia

It's literally in the article.

> Although cyberattacks have become more high profile, there is little reliable data on how many attacks take place in the UK each year. Hackers are drawn from a mix of organised criminal gangs, those sponsored by state actors including Russia and China, and hacktivists with a political agenda, according to a report by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).

That's just a general statement; nothing suggests these children are working with or acting on behalf of Russia.

More likely they are spectrum'd to fuckery or pushing a political agenda.

> More likely

What are you basing this probability on?

The UK and EU has seen a significant increase in cyber-attacks and acts of sabotage since February 2022. In some cases, evidence has been found that the attacks were orchestrated by the russian government.

I suppose it's all one big coincidence?

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