The effects of the ban are likely to hit the front lines in Ukraine as well, where both Kyiv and Moscow’s troops have been seen using Discord to coordinate drone operations.
Several videos posted online have shown uniformed men watching surveillance drone feeds on the platform, including one clip said to have captured the interior of a command post in Bakhmut.
I’m more appalled by the fact that the Russian military was apparently able to use discord as a weapon of war to facilitate their unprovoked war of agression and killing Ukranians. Discord should take a long hard look at what other stuff happens on their platform.
This is absolutely bizarre and a disgrace to the Russian military that this was even a thing. Like, Russia has complete in-house comm systems, all the way down to the silicon. They’re as elegant as charcoal clothing iron, but at least they’re secure. In fact, they’re so paranoid about NSA plants that they even force businesses to use in-house encryption to submit accounting reports. And then the same idiots allow risking lives of officers by using random software in a command center…
Though I feel like the response is also far from best. There are numerous alternatives they can switch to, so the ban is mostly going to only hit innocent gamers. It’d be much more impactful if they just silently handed access to those channels over to Ukrainians.
It’s pretty wild to think they took this long to prohibit using US-based software for such sensitive information
Maybe it took this long to develop an alternative. They now have an alternative… Right? The Kremlin wouldn’t send it’s citizens off to fight without being sufficiently equipped… Right?
They still have those wire phones with a hand crank.
Maybe Putins buddies have stocks in the wire industry.
You know there’s phones that don’t need a crank? The voice itself can be used to power the transmission. Its actually brilliant tech for a situation like this
Relaying sensitive information over your own wires are a lot more secure then a privately owned service from a foreign country. It’s just a lot more cumbersome.
i mean they could just really easily host a matrix instance or something
You do much video streaming on matrix? That’s what they were using discord for.
They have tin cans and string. So they’re all set.
No, no. Its a tape recorder duct taped to a drone that carries messages back and forth like a carrier pidgin
Don’t forget… the cans come full of potatoes so that’s like two tools in one!
so much for second best army in the world
Why doesn’t Russia just use the Russian state-sponsored communication platform?
What do you mean 80 year old radios keyed to commercial bands aren’t adequate in 2024?!?!
Russians using Telegram and Discord reaks of a ridiculously high level of incompetence…
Their military communications are not private at all? They have no encrypted messaging platforms? Like WTF
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Don’t worry, Russian military. I know a company in Hungary that sells pagers and walkie-talkies in bulk to facilitate communication.
