The developers said they did not believe they made any “obvious” operational mistake. After discovering the compromised key, they attempted to secure their system by deleting exposed keys, disabling Google Gemini API access, and enabling two-factor authentication across their accounts.

I’m no “cloud developer”, but there seem to be a few obvious operational mistakes described just in that paragraph alone…

I wonder if the real point of the article is not that the Russians are doing this, but that everyone else is saying “Hey, we know what you’re up to”. To give them second thoughts about escalating.

I find it interesting how the article is just casually dismissing the fact that countries can now fly around and take pictures of other countries’ geosynchronous satellites. It says “Yeah, pics are OK, but Russia might be listening, too, and that’s bad.” Whicn is bullshit. I don’t think anyone is going through the trouble of sending up a remotely piloted space drone but saying “Let’s not listen to the data it is sending, that would be unsportsmanlike!” So all those craft we say are “just taking pictures”? Yeah, they’re listening too.

I think any country that broadcasts signals into the air like that will have some really good encryption going on though, so listening to the signals is about as useful as listening to static

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I Do My Own Research, thank you very much!

Which has more bots?

I’ve seen whistles with the number for the local rapid response hotline printed right on them. Must have been one of those fancy multi-filament printers.

Just don’t hook it up to your wifi. Don’t use any of its included apps. If you must stream get a separate device to do it.