In a now-deleted post on Telegram, a hacking group called Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility for the attack.
Do you think it really was a group in Ukraine, or do you reckon that’s bullshit?
I’d say he is making up a reason to turn off Starlink for Ukraine.
Poland was paying for it and they openly said Musk actions mean they need to find a replacement
He’s going to “shut it off” when they cancel the contract.
Full on:
You can’t fire me, I quit!
Anonymous already claimed responsibility and I doubt they’d use multiple addresses from Ukraine, if any, honestly. He’s blaming them to further convince right-wingers that Ukraine=bad.
And to back this up they registered a domain for their “Operation Dreadnaught” on Feb 2. So it does show some premeditation instead of opportunistic attribution.
these people aren’t right wingers anymore. they arent conservative.
its fascists, collaborators, and traitors, who’ve convinced people they are conservatives.
The first “D” in “DDOS” stands for “distributed”, i.e. it’s coming from many places at once. Elon is either an idiot or a liar. Or both.
Distributed just means “multiple sources” not “multiple countries”.
I wouldn’t believe a word out of this known liars mouth without evidence. It makes little sense for Ukraine to bite the hand that feeds them, so to say. It could very easily be Russia trying to frame them. Evidence is necessary!
How would one find evidence if the user utilized a VPN?
You don’t DDOS through a VPN. The first D is for distributed, you do it from a multitude of devices, often hacked ones from a botnet. So DDOS attribution is hard. And if you want some scale you reflect the attack on some other machine that runs a service that allow for amplification, making attribution even harder.
What would be hilarious is if they used starlink to ddos twitter, and that’s why it looks like Ukraine
Wouldn’t it make sense if it was a Russian group posing as being in Ukraine, to further divide the US and Russia? I mean the Russian ministry of truth is already hammering hard at that bond. How stupid can one be not to see that?
It would make more sense than that Ukrainians did it.
Nah. Russia has been running circles around America in the information war. In Clarissa ward’s on all fronts, she talks about investigating Russian troll farms in Uganda that specifically targeted African Americans and stoked things like the BLM movement, etc. there is a reason why America is so divided. It’s why Europeans have started shutting off these things during elections, etc
Why do you write nah, and then come with an example that confirms how Russians do this routinely?
Is there something ambiguous about my comment? That state it makes more sense that it’s the Russians.
Probably skimmed fast and missed the “than”. Probably.
Or to put it another way, they didn’t even read a comment that is only 1 frigging line, before downvoting!!!
I misread comments all the time and sometimes reply based on the misreading. No ill intent, just my eyes playing tricks on me and skipping a word. Can’t imagine I’m the only one
Yeah I was half awake
I think it’s the “than that” is a little more complex of a construction that can be read over, and possibly missed. The sentence can be read with either of those missing, but if the “than” is missed it completely changes the meaning.
But if you actually read the VERY short comment, it shouldn’t be ambiguous.
Sad that people are so quick to downvote, without even reading a comment that is only 1 line!!
Yeah I was half awake
Except Russia uses X as a tool for disinfo, why would they attack “their own” infrastructure?
It’s just a DDOS attack, it’s not like there’s lasting damage. It makes even less sense for Ukraine to attack Twitter than it does for Russia. This is all too fishy and real evidence needs to be brought forth. Musk is a pathological liar with an axe to grind. His words are worth less than shit.
You didn’t think Ukrainians might be motivated to strike out at musk’s companies?
To play the victim card. When no real harm was done.
Attacking your own assets to make it look like an enemy isn’t new. And attacks like this are nondestructive. They don’t actually lose anything by doing so. But some idiots will just assume that it couldn’t be anyone associated with the group being attacked.
Russia is the reigning champion of false flags.
Their war against Finland, was premeditated on a false flag. They shelled their own town and claimed the finns did it Same against Poland. Although in that case I believe it was more of an opportunity to take advantage of the Nazis false flag in the Radio Tower incident that they used for their own casus belli
Putins rise to power revolved around a false flag, he had the FSB bomb an apartment complex and kill a score of people, only to blame Chechens after the first Chechen war, to use as a rally round the flag power grab and justify the second Chechen war. The Russians LOVED him for murdering the fuck out of Chechens.
And it was all a distant memory now, but the Ukraine invasion was started by a series of pathetic false flags. including but not limited to
- an “assassination attempt” on a Separatist leader in Donetsk by blowing up a 40 year old low end "limousine’. (it was a regular car)
- taking captured or knockoff ukrainian uniforms, and hastily spraypainting ukrainian camo patterns on their own vehicles since both sides used the same equipment back then, and making a fake go-pro video of Ukrainians invading Russia in early 2022.
- blowing up their own military vehicles to lend credibility to the second point.
*to be clear Im talking about the incidents that occured in late January and early Feb 2022, while the Russians were building up military forces and when they “recognized” the separatist states and formally moved their military into Ukraine, about a week before the shooting started, all of this was going on
Russia has always been a gong-show of shitty and pathetic theatre and drama for the cameras/newspapers*
“It’s what anyone else would do.”
It could also be China. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.
Nothing brings dumb people together like a common enemy. It is Zelenskyy, someone told me. He had tears in his eyes and I heard it from his uncle’s cousin wife.
