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.

  • nomadEnglish
    43•10 months ago

    Have you ever seen any academic IT systems? They are all underfunded ans run by grad students.

    • @cynarEnglish
      18•10 months ago

      Even worse, they are often a case of accretion by generations of grad students and undergrads.

      E.g. a university was redoing how it hosted student club websites. When it eventually killed the old hosting, 1 site stayed working. It was eventually tracked down to a little mini pc mounted above the false ceiling. It had been plodding away for 20 odd years, most of that without any maintenance at all.

    • 50gp
      6•10 months ago

      and here we have underfunded science with lots of russian corruption on top

      real chance of backup system money disappearing in pockets…