Russian officials boasted on Friday that Moscow was spared the impact of the global IT systems outage because of its increased self-sufficiency after years of Western sanctions, though some experts said Russian systems could still be vulnerable. Microsoft and other IT firms have suspended sales of new products in Russia and have been scaling down their operations in line with sanctions imposed over Russia's war in Ukraine, which Moscow describes as a special military operation. CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity company whose widely used "Falcon Sensor" software caused Microsoft Windows to crash, had no known customers in Russia.
  • atro_city@fedia.io
    536·
    3 months ago

    Now would’ve been the time to strike!

    But Russia is doing at least one thing right, getting rid of fucking Microsoft products. Fuck that shit.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      31·
      3 months ago

      I don’t understand why other countries got so into microshit, it has always been a national security risk for anyone who is not US.

      Imagine all that foss that could be had if governments funded open source development… standardization and interoperability intra and inter governments.

      Instead we got whatever this clown set up is lol

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        3 months ago

        Governments have no real interest in IT security because that would make it harder for them to snoop on their populations.

        • sunzu@kbin.run
          21·
          3 months ago

          so much for that thing like like to rub in my face every time, they got and i don’t: “sovereignty”

      • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Governments did fund projects like that think of BASIC. Problem is companies took that public resource and made a lot of money and thus a lot of control. Learning the history of mini computers and early Unix. that story is told over and over.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        22·
        3 months ago

        Their citizens don’t care. How many people do you know that even know what an operating system is? I don’t even know what fos (F operating system?) is! The politicians here barely even know how to operate a phone. They all buy that apple shit.