Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov believes that the role of cybersecurity in today's world is exaggerated.<p>He said this in an interview with LB.ua [1].<p>"I think the role of cybersecurity is a bit exaggerated. There is a lot of talk about it, but in fact few can name any real cases of cyber threats. Let me give a simple example. When we came to the President's Office, the IT team showed dashboards with a thousand attacks a day, overloaded servers, etc. Two weeks later, we fired them, and nothing happened for several months while we were assembling a new team." - Fedorov said.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.lb.ua/news/2019/11/29/8183_role_cybersecurity_slightly.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.lb.ua/news/2019/11/29/8183_role_cybersecurity_sli...</a>
<i>>"All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future."</i><p>The message also reads "For Volyn, for OUN UPA, for Galicia, for Polesia, and for historical lands", but I guess Reuters can't be bothered with details.
Reuters headline on Dec 7,1941:<p>"Ships sink at Pearl Harbour amid Japan tensions"<p>Here's my suggestion when reading / thinking / discussing these matters: consider what the people in question actually think and want. Close to 100% of what I read on this topic, "NATO's expansion", "Russia's sphere of influence", etc treats the people in question as inanimate objects that are there for the US and Russia to play with.<p>NATO did not expand - free people chose to join an organization because they believed it would be better for them. And it was. Perhaps in the future they will choose differently, you can just ask.<p>Being close to Russia has been a catastrophy for all the places that were under its influnce and they're slowly realizing that and moving away. The closer you were to Russia, the harder this is.
In 2018 the U.S. Cyber Command just shut the fck down Russian troll factory [0]
So, it seems that the US could help, but would they?<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cyber-command-operation-disrupted-internet-access-of-russian-troll-factory-on-day-of-2018-midterms/2019/02/26/1827fc9e-36d6-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cy...</a>
We do not really have to rush to publish a short news article. We all regularly get this kind of breaking news in other places. I'm more happy to read a piece with technical analysis of the attack on the HN after a week.