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.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    One side of me wants to cheer the Ukrainians, but the other laments that they… “hurt science”. I wish they could have stolen the data before they wiped it so it wasn’t lost, but that’s a lot of data to swipe.

    I get it, it’s just I’m sad all of that knowledge was lost. Space Hydrometeorology isn’t really relevant to war-waging. It wasn’t a strategic target.

    I will drink two toasts tonight: one for Ukraine’s victory, and one to lament lost knowledge.

    • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I agree with you completely. Any time knowledge like this is destroyed, it illicits the same feeling for me as thinking about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria.

      Fuck russia, but also fuck destroying knowledge in the name of war…

    • Teanut@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Weather forecasting is actually really important for military operations. Consider weather advisories for aircraft, for example. Or planning an offensive on a clear day.

      That said I don’t know if this place was doing climate science or weather forecasting (or both).

    • Sprokes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I am sure they have offline backups. Also sometimes most of the data is garbage in the sense we collect anything in case we need it.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I wish they could have stolen the data before they wiped it so it wasn’t lost, but that’s a lot of data to swipe.

      Ukrainian hackers could cryptolocker it and exchange the keys for Ukrainian POWs.

      • h4lf8yte@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I am sure somebody would get suspicious if the servers are on 100% CPU + IO to encrypt 2 petabytes especially if you encrypt the data in place.