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UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption (reuters.com)
Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. From a report: Russia denied the accusation, saying it was part of "Russophobic" campaign it said was being waged by some Western countries. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it crippled government and business computers before spreading around the world, halting operations at ports, factories and offices. Britain's foreign ministry said the attack originated from the Russian military. "The decision to publicly attribute this incident underlines the fact that the UK and its allies will not tolerate malicious cyber activity," the ministry said in a statement. "The attack masqueraded as a criminal enterprise but its purpose was principally to disrupt," it said.
"Country with history of lying about foreign affairs accusing another country with a history of lying about foreign affairs of lying about foreign affairs."
This story was a waste of electricity.
At least the UK leadership did not, publicly and directly, implore Russia to involve themselves in the internal decision making process in the UK.It is kind of hard to act self-righteous if you first ask them to do it.
Are we now seeing why "The Boy who Cried Wolf" and "Chicken Little" fables were important to learn when you were a child?
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You wanted to blame Russia! Russia! Russia! just to undermine Trump
Thanks for the note, comrade. However, it would be more convincing if Trump himself wasn't constantly making false and pants-on-fire statements all the time.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
lol. That's right; he wasn't "poisoned" comrade, he just happened to drink some polonium tea that was probably lying around for no particular reason.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
This series of 6 articles alleges the Russian state or their Mafia allies have committed 17 politically motivated murders in the UK.
To save us all time, I'll preempt the usual Krembot objections: yes, it's Buzzfeed, the evidence is in the six articles.
The UK authorities have apparently been reluctant to do anything about it for fear of unleashing further mayhem or disturbing the huge amounts of dirty Russian money swilling around London, sorry invested in the UK.
...Oh, yeah, Trump's approval ratings are now above what Obama had.
Actually, Trump's approval ratings did rise slightly since December... but, no, even with that slight up-tick, his approval ratings are still lower than Obama's. (Or Bush's, for that matter.)
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Oh, well ... if they won't tolerate it, that's different.
We are so sorry, comrade!
No Royal Wedding invitations for you!
That'll show 'em!
Maybe the SAS can toss some Corgis at Russians, as well.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The fact that the attack started with Ukraine is very strong evidence that it's Russia. They have been attacking Ukraine continuously since 2014.
It's also likely that, this time, it wasn't actually an attack aimed at Britain. Not that they wouldn't attack Britain, but this time it looks like Britain was just collateral damage of an attack on Ukraine, because turns out that malware and viruses don't stick around at the target you send them to, they spread out.
"the people" voted Brexit because they thought it would make the fucking brown people go away. They were asked a complicated question and responded with a fucking stupid answer. There never should have been a referendum, there's a parliament that takes care of governance, democratically elected, and populated by people who know what the EU actually is.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
As my friend Comrade Colonel General Koleshnikov once said "Dmitry Sonovavich, we have often noticed traitors and spies have large amounts of hazardous radioactive isotopes in their hideouts. We have no idea why this is. Maybe they put them in their tea for some reason"
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
"The people" ARE the government. Having an external body make decisions for them without reference to their opinions is...what's the word? Oh right: fascist. You're a fascist. The entire idea of "my ideas are right and yours are wrong" is anti-democratic to the core. How the fuck do you end up with an idea like "the EU is an unmitigated good which must never be opposed"? It's just one idea, with which reasonable people may disagree. To say otherwise is fascist.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Russia is unlikely to improve as long as Putin, the oligarchs and the mafias are in charge. No matter how much he hypes up external threats, the 70% of the population who aren't gullible understand that, as in the west, the system is stacked in favour of the elites but unlike the west, they're not allowed even to elect a totally unsuitable leader who promises to "drain the swamp".
When even the rule of law is at the whim of the state and they see that anyone who complains too much ends up without a job or in prison or dead, they have little choice but to acquiesce or participate in the endemic corruption.
In such an environment, any call to work together for the good of the country will be met with hollow laughter at best.
Even when Putin eventually goes, hoping for a new leader who can make an efficient functioning state out of the current mess seems to be wishful thinking.