Navalny and many others used leaked databases of banks, mobile companies, airlines, delivery companies and even law enforcement for many years to run their investigations.Such leaks were pervasive in Russia until very recently, when the risks to leakers accrued.Most of the time, these databases were leaked not to independent investigators but to crooks of all kinds to take on credits, spy on cheaters, steal property from the elderly, etc.This went even further in Belarus, where the civil society crowd-sourced an online database of pretty much everyone who was involved in 2020 rigged elections, from school officials to members of special forces. Check for yourself at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackmap.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blackmap.org&#x2F;</a>

&gt; most western news organizations skimp on translation services now and don&#x27;t really follow Russian&#x2F;Mandarin&#x2F;Farsi&#x2F;etc language mediaBy what standard are they &#x27;skimping&#x27;? Did they used to translate those sources? In the past I&#x27;ve done a lot of looking into non-English journalism and never found many translations, unless it was done by the publication itself (e.g., it might translate some articles or have an English edition).

There have been notable examples recently in Russia [0][1], and most likely similar attempts in China as well.A lot of Iran&#x27;s nuclear scientists keep finding bullets in their heads for some mysterious reason.&gt; Probably wouldn&#x27;t hear as much about it due to their governments clamping down on any media that suggests these places have any sort of flawsIt comes up but most western news organizations skimp on translation services now and don&#x27;t really follow Russian&#x2F;Mandarin&#x2F;Farsi&#x2F;etc language media. There&#x27;s a reason why American news channels keep quoting English speaking Global Times instead of Mandarin language sources[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;russias-fsb-says-us-nsa-penetrated-thousands-apple-phones-spy-plot-2023-06-01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;russias-fsb-says-us-nsa-p...</a>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us-justice-department-says-it-disrupted-russian-intelligence-hacking-network-2024-02-15&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us-justice-department-says-it-...</a>

There is no evidence that the West has ever suffered anything as serious and sophisticated as STUXNET.

I find myself wondering if Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, wherever see the same security breaches that the West seems to be suffering.Probably wouldn&#x27;t hear as much about it due to their governments clamping down on any media that suggests these places have any sort of flaws, but you&#x27;d think the CIA&#x2F;DIA, MI6, DGSE, etc. would be having at least some success.

To be fair, the article probably gives all the details it can, what do people expect? They can&#x27;t share information that they don&#x27;t have or that the police aren&#x27;t willing to divulge. Not every piece of news will have an in-depth look at a recent event.

The article told me it was a hard copy; the headline don&#x27;t.

The article really does not add much interesting info beyond the headline

So they have no cameras in that room? crazy

Really?<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&#x2F;press-publications&#x2F;press-news&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2024&#x2F;european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edps.europa.eu&#x2F;press-publications&#x2F;press-news&#x2F;pre...</a>

Government agencies exempted themselves from GDPR and similar. That was discussed on HN in context of the break in Ireland.

Rust can make locks harder to pick, improving security. But it is a pain to deal with and it certainly doesn&#x27;t solve all security problems, and it is vulnerable to the WD-40 attack.

&gt; Before anyone jumps in with &quot;Rust solves all security problems&quot; evangelism (love the language, hate the evangelists)Seems a bit odd to go out of your way to bash rust evangelists on a completely unrelated thread, especially when the nobody in the comments has mentioned rust at all.

The people irritated by evangelists are morphing into some sort of evangelists themselves.

There are quite a few cases where people say &quot;Rust wouldn&#x27;t have fixed&quot; this and they&#x27;re a real mixed bag of whether that&#x27;s right or wrong or hard to say, partly because in fact Rust&#x27;s safety culture isn&#x27;t just about memory safety.So e.g. there are some logic bugs where you&#x27;re like yeah, I&#x27;d totally write that same bug in Rust but there are also arithmetic bugs where the problem arises because C++ inherits C&#x27;s um, exciting &quot;integer promotion&quot; rules and Rust doesn&#x27;t have those, far more of such situations in a Rust codebase are going to cause a puzzled programmer to investigate what really is going on with these integers and not write the bug.Or there are type safety bugs where in Rust that mistake just won&#x27;t compile, but in C++ it will compile it just has astonishing results. Obviously you can&#x27;t write those bugs in Rust.There&#x27;s also a lot of contribution from ergonomics considerations where Rust&#x27;s &quot;Empowering everyone&quot; idea means they think about library and feature design not just from the perspective of an expert but also a beginner, someone learning or maybe familiar with the rest of the language but not this particular feature. In C++ sort() is the unstable sort, if you don&#x27;t know what unstable sorting is, you&#x27;re given no clue that this might have consequences which astonish you. In Rust that sort is still there, but it&#x27;s named sort_unstable() -- cuing a novice to read up about this idea before they are surprised. If they just write sort() they get a stable sort instead.

&gt; Before anyone jumps in with &quot;Rust solves all security problems&quot; evangelismI have literally never seen this on a post not about memory corruption issues.

I guess their security practices had gotten a bit rusty

The companies are not allowed to abuse our data without our consent, how awful. Install uBlock Origin along with optional annoyance filters and you&#x27;ll almost never see a banner again.

Serious security breach hits EU police agency