kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Even the "hero" of Novorossiya, Igor Girkin, is calling for "sabotage of vaccinations"

Gazprom-owned NTV 🇷🇺 complains about vaccine hesitancy in Russia:

> Africans got vaccinated and defeated Ebola. What about us? We're certainly not Africans. We haven't defeated anything

Fun fact: Russian troll farms has been busy spreading anti-vaccine nonsense in US and Europe over the course of 2020.

As it comes out, all that bullshit is being translated from English back into Russian and widely spreading on Russian social media.

Vaccination uptake in Russia in mid-2021 is ~13%.

#karma

@piotrsikora @LeszekMiller

No to już jest taki jałowy spór na poziomie semantycznym - generalnie nieautoryzowany dostęp do konta przy pomocy ukradzionych danych do logowania zwykło się nadal nazywać "włamaniem". Sedno problemu polega oczywiście na tym, że urzędnik naruszając przepisy i procedury korzystał z prywatnego konta do celów służbowych oraz, że nie miał na nim MFA.

They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants 🇺🇸

https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/

@werekat

Same in Poland's 90's, I studied in technical university and anything remotely related to humanist sciences, such as philosophy was absent and despised. Possibly due to the mandatory courses of Marxism-Leninism which were widely hated and immediately abandoned after 1989.

@werekat

I once had a funny encounter when I must have a had a very skeptical face expression during one of my friend's tirade about ghosts or something, and he asked me "так вы не верите в энергетику" and my response was a blank stare as I completely didn't get what he meant — I asked "you mean electric poles, plants?!" as the use of the term "энергетика" in the esoteric sense was completely foreign to me.

@werekat

I'd live to read it — I was always quite shocked how much that esoterics is widespread in modern Russia, with apprently educated people literally visiting fairies (гадалки) for advice and believing all that pseudo-spiritual nonsense.

@werekat

Same was suspected of Stanisław Lem, as he was very productive author and hidden behind the mystery of the Iron Curtain.

@werekat

Peter Turchin has an interesting section about influence of Arabic philosophy on Soviet ideology, especially a concept of "asabiya", introduced by an Arabic thinker (whose name I of course forgot), meaning basically the level of social cohesion. Soviets of course got it wrong, as they believed you can force the cohesion on people.

@vfrmedia

My colleague made a point that you can't really fire and "elected politician" but ministers are not elected, they are nominated. In general, the percentage of elected individuals in public sector is rather small, and "firing" is a punishment suitable for violation of *corporate* procedures. At the same time even elected officials are subject to the laws they have enacted.

@vfrmedia

Can't say about efficacy of their internal procedures but indeed the published breaches are few and you don't have public ministers private email routinely breached in the UK.

In Poland the attitude where politicians feel like the law is for anyone but themselves is still very widespread, and they are often simply arrogant and poorly educated.

In the private sector, especially financial, regulators would be all over company employees sending work documents with private email.

FSA/FCA archives are full of multi-million fines for such violations, even if they didn't end up in a breach.

But not in public sector in Poland - you can send whatever to whatever crappy private email you have and you're a "victim".

Public gov.pl announcement kind of confirms the leaks were legitimate - and includes rather ridiculous statement about "helping the victims with securing their email" - as a reminder, these officials likely violated Polish law and gov operational procedures.

Presenting them as "victims" is just about as accurate as with someone knowingly driving on a public road in a car with no brakes 🤷

And it's not new - infosec community has been talking about it for years.

https://www.gov.pl/web/premier/oswiadczenie-wiceprezesa-rady-ministrow-przewodniczacego-komitetu-ds-bezpieczenstwa-narodowego-i-spraw-obronnych-jaroslawa-kaczynskiego2

Once again alleged leaks from 🇵🇱 gov officials allegedly using private mailboxes for work. Assuming leaks are genuine, who did it doesn't really matter - the root cause is negligence of public officials and they are the only to blame 🤷 And they are to blame for both using private email for work, and for using it without sufficiently strong authentication.

https://oko.press/wyciek-rzadowych-danych-szerszy-niz-wiedzielismy-jest-kolejny-kanal/

@mark@metalhead.club @anahata@tech.lgbt

There seems to be no browser installed on the SD that comes with Nezha but that seems to be just a omission - the Debian distro there is clearly proof-of-concept rather than release quality, for example apt was configured to use some obscure local proxy, obviously remnant of developer testing. After I fixed it, all I had to do was basically "apt install qutebrowser".