The effects of the ban are likely to hit the front lines in Ukraine as well, where both Kyiv and Moscow’s troops have been seen using Discord to coordinate drone operations.
Several videos posted online have shown uniformed men watching surveillance drone feeds on the platform, including one clip said to have captured the interior of a command post in Bakhmut.
It’s pretty wild to think they took this long to prohibit using US-based software for such sensitive information
Maybe it took this long to develop an alternative. They now have an alternative… Right? The Kremlin wouldn’t send it’s citizens off to fight without being sufficiently equipped… Right?
They have tin cans and string. So they’re all set.
i mean they could just really easily host a matrix instance or something
You do much video streaming on matrix? That’s what they were using discord for.
They still have those wire phones with a hand crank.
Maybe Putins buddies have stocks in the wire industry.
Good, because I don’t care how nice their soup cans are, there’s no way a string would be able to stay taut between Moscow and Donetsk.
Relaying sensitive information over your own wires are a lot more secure then a privately owned service from a foreign country. It’s just a lot more cumbersome.