Epistemic Status : I’m not very confident about my idea because I just started thinking about this idea this morning. So I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on that.
I wonder if a small group of smart hackers couldn’t do huge things to help Ukraine vs Russia. I feel like Anonymous tends to do massive not-very-smart attacks (huge DDoS basically) and I feel like given their results there might be room for very smart interventions that truly make a difference in Russia’s ability to win this war (either helping Ukrainians via information or some protection against cyber attacks, or attacking Russian logistics / information systems for instance)
For the rationale of engaging in these cyber activities: - I feel like anything that does not harm Russian civilians and makes the Ukraine invasion harder is positive, bc I feel like this might have very important long-run effects (if Russia comes out of this conflict much weaker than when it began, it’s a major incentive against future full-scale invasions, and that’s very positive)
The downsides: - If your localization is identifiable and you’re able to do significant things, it might make diplomatic relations between your country / Russia even worse. - It might be risky if you want to go to Russia at some point
If people do this (which does seem quite cool!) I’d moderately prefer they hide their connection to EA somewhat; we probably don’t want unnecessary nation-state actor attention on us (more than there is already I mean).
[EFFECTIVE HACKERS]
Epistemic Status : I’m not very confident about my idea because I just started thinking about this idea this morning. So I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on that.
I wonder if a small group of smart hackers couldn’t do huge things to help Ukraine vs Russia. I feel like Anonymous tends to do massive not-very-smart attacks (huge DDoS basically) and I feel like given their results there might be room for very smart interventions that truly make a difference in Russia’s ability to win this war (either helping Ukrainians via information or some protection against cyber attacks, or attacking Russian logistics / information systems for instance)
For the rationale of engaging in these cyber activities:
- I feel like anything that does not harm Russian civilians and makes the Ukraine invasion harder is positive, bc I feel like this might have very important long-run effects (if Russia comes out of this conflict much weaker than when it began, it’s a major incentive against future full-scale invasions, and that’s very positive)
The downsides:
- If your localization is identifiable and you’re able to do significant things, it might make diplomatic relations between your country / Russia even worse.
- It might be risky if you want to go to Russia at some point
If people do this (which does seem quite cool!) I’d moderately prefer they hide their connection to EA somewhat; we probably don’t want unnecessary nation-state actor attention on us (more than there is already I mean).