The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "planeta" (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

  • QuokkaEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    Would they maintain their own private off-site backup or would they be in a cluster with other government agencies or renting out from a commercial operation?

    The cost would be massive for you or I to utilise such services, less so for an agency, and it certainly isn’t difficult.

    I understand science is generally always under funded and there’s probably some oligarch skimming off of their budget, but I still don’t see this being the win they think it is in any form. I can only hope the climate data is not lost to all time.

    • gregorumEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      Would they maintain their own private off-site backup or would they be in a cluster with other government agencies or renting out from a commercial operation?

      nobody said they would. I’m just pointing out that the difficulty of backing up 45TB+ of computational meteorological data is a greater consideration than a bulk purchase of magnetic tape.

      and, really, the carelessness with which you regard research and knowledge is pretty disgusting. don’t think you’re some hero for that. that’s hundreds of millions - possibly billions - of dollars of research and work let and hundreds of thousands of man-hours just gone. and, again, the data, the analysis, and the knowledge. just gone.

      • QuokkaEnglish
        -2•5 months ago

        What are you on about?

        Like 95% of what you’ve just ranted about doesn’t even relate to my posts.