The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked (apnews.com) 50
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The International Criminal Court said Tuesday that it detected "anomalous activity affecting its information systems" last week and took urgent measures to respond. It didn't elaborate on what it called a "cybersecurity incident." Court spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said in a written statement that extra "response and security measures are now ongoing" with the assistance of authorities in the Netherlands, where the court is based. "Looking forward, the Court will be building on existing work presently underway to strengthen its cyber security framework, including accelerating its use of cloud technology," his statement added. The court declined to go into any more detail about the incident, but said that as it "continues to analyze and mitigate the impact of this incident, priority is also being given to ensuring that the core work of the Court continues."
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No matter what they do, the cat is out of the bag, Putin is a war criminal.
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That's a fair deal: jail all US Prez's in exchange for jailing Putin also.
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For my part, it's a deal.
You might have to convince a few hundred million nationalists though.
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I'm fairly certain that both Russian and American nationalists are quite a-ok with rounding them up and dump them somewhere where we don't have to worry about them anymore.
Whataboutism only works if the other side doesn't nod their head in agreement and goes "yup, fuck them too".
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So has been every US president since Carter.
Backup your claim. Let's see you embarrass yourself because you don't understand what a war criminal is and don't realise that simply starting a war doesn't make you one.
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Yeah, what about them?
And more importantly, what about ism?
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It's funny how his critics keep "accidentally" falling out of windows and planes.
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no.
"equally as bad, the US have no moral standing to criticize anything"
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If that's the metric we are using then no country in Europe can criticize anything because before the last 70 years Europe was absolutely the most invade-y, warlike region on the entire planet. Russia also can't criticize Iraq as the USSR was invading neighbors. China also cannot criticize the US. All countries do bad things but equivocating every bad thing as equal doesn't get us anywhere because where does the line stop? Is there a country or peoples on earth with clean hands at this point?
The US was wrong to invade Iraq and Russia could rightly criticize that action. In this case the USA is right to criticize Russia and defend Ukraine, this isn't that complicated.
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Being wrong or right isn't even the point here. It seems there are a bunch of people on Slashdot who think that starting a war makes you an automagical war criminal. The reality is that no, the US presidents didn't commit war crimes. Sure they have blood on their hands, the USA has contributed massively to global instability, but equating that with war crimes and the very specific things Putin is accused of is either ignorance or stupidity.
It's worth nothing that the ICC war crime warrant out for Putin does
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If Russia worked to manipulate Canada's government and elections and install a leader friendly to their interests, lead by far right nazi factions in the government, who also executed, burned alive and beat citizens in Canada's streets, America wouldn't be justified in invading Canada?
One, you have no real evidence of this happening in relation to the US/Ukraine, and two, no, it still would not give the USA justification to invade another sovereign nation, especially with the goal to annex territory
Russia had no choice but to invade.
They absolutely did, it's as simple as not invading as they agreed to borders 1991 and also ratified an agreement to respect that in 1994.
Ukraine posed no security threat to Russia, nor does NATO. There's no universe where Ukraine or NATO are invading Russia.
The amount of different theories you can throwing on top of one another here to justify this speaks to the fact you have no clear evidence of any of these actions.
In one sentence you are making 4-5 different accusations, go with your strongest one, what action on Ukraine's part gives Russia justification to invade them, break their agreements and annex territory for themselves?
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especially with the goal to annex territory
This is key. The US (and the rest of the western nations involved) never had any intention of keeping Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
Putin absolutely intends to keep as much of Ukraine as he can take.
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It is not hypocrisy, it is reality. I don't have to be morally pure to recognize a piece of shit.
Your attempt to invoke moral relativism is a pathetic red herring.
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I don't particularly like this law but if the US is not a member of the ICC does it not make sense? Would we tolerate any vigilante group taking US military personnel hostage? Especially a non-nation-state entity? Would any country?
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So, other countries should tolerate US enforcing democracy/engaging in police actions
"I like pancakes"
"Oh so you hate waffles?"
"No, that's a whole new sentence, wtf are you talking about?"
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Would any country?
It happens all the time. There's this concept called jurisdiction. The citizens of countries like the US and Russia who fancy themselves super powers often seem to have a very poor grasp of how it works. Now, this is not to equivocate between Russia and the US. There is absolutely fair criticism of the US on these grounds, but they're still not somehow equivalent to Russia in terms of recent, happening-at-this-very-moment war crimes. This isn't about history. Putin's (and Russia's - there is complicity there, it's not all down to one autocratic leader) war crimes far exceed those of the US and its Presidents. It should be clear right from the start that the crime of aggression on the part of Russia in this war is far worse than anything the US has done for a long time. They invaded a neighbor with the clear purpose to hold their territory and claim it, and the people living there, as their possession. Now, in Iraq for example, there certainly was some corrupt profiteering by companies like Haliburton with political backing and the US certainly tried to make sure that the government was friendly to them. However, there was little doubt that they were going to leave the country eventually in the hands of its own people, not annex it or set up an "independent" state where all the top officials were also officers in the US military or security services like Russia has. Clearly, the US has the potential to still pull stuff like that. Consider Donald Trump's "we should have kept the oil". There's someone who really, really doesn't have a clue what's going on.
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Next you're going to tell me that nobody landed on the moon.
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your war criminals including your favorites Bush, Cheney, Obama and Biden
No one person likes all of those people.
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Too be honest, Bush was more of a useful idiot than a war criminal, Cheney owns that label.
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Bush was the President though so he gets the blame, especially if the idea is "I had no idea what my own staff were doing", that's even worse then just being straight up complicit. The name of his branch is literally "Executive"
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Bush was the President though so he gets the blame, especially if the idea is "I had no idea what my own staff were doing", that's even worse then just being straight up complicit. The name of his branch is literally "Executive"
For some reason, people like to treat Junior as if he were the family pet. Cute, funny when he bumbles, fun at parties (
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your war criminals including your favorites Bush, Cheney, Obama and Biden
No one person likes all of those people.
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole many a man's soul and faith
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Pleased to meet you.
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I've always appreciated the irony of how those who complain the US tries to be the world's policeman want more power for the ICC to in fact be the world's policeman.
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Sorry, your war criminals including your favorites Bush, Cheney, Obama and Biden
Ok, whose favorites include both Obama and Bush/Cheney? That seems pretty unlikely. Also, I notice you let Donald Trump off that list. His war crimes aren't good enough for you?
for anything, "cloud" is supposed to be the answer (Score:2, Flamebait)
"Looking forward, the Court will be building on existing work presently underway to strengthen its cyber security framework, including accelerating its use of cloud technology,"
sounds like "let's apply the buzzword of the day" will end up in yet another AWS fully opened data bucket catastrophe
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"We'll use LockGPT with blockchain deep quantum edge mesh nodes. We'll also put a giant ACME mallet on the front to whack the hackers incase all the other shit fails."
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The world is going to completely fall apart when we get hit by a big ass solar flare.
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It's okay, Xi's Department of Mass Snooping backed it all up.
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Luckily most the US still uses straight up paper ballots or electronic with a paper receipt.
https://verifiedvoting.org/ver... [verifiedvoting.org]
On the other hand I don't know how much authority the Feds have to enforce methods of voting to the states themselves, they have some authority for Federal elections but the lines can get blurry.
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The problems with digital voting machines are nearly intractable.
Nearly. But it's not impossible.
Blockchain and digital signatures could go a long way toward ensuring the security and validity of the result. Which is why they have yet to be implemented. Those with vested interests in fiddling with the outcome are not likely to stand by while one is put into place.
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Blockchain always seems to *sound* like it would help voting systems, but it doesn't. We require privacy for voting, and reliability/trust of the entire system, and blockchain tech cannot provide both of those simultaneously.
https://dci.mit.edu/voting-on-... [mit.edu]
https://www.usvotefoundation.o... [usvotefoundation.org]
I can see it now (Score:2)
Defendant: That's not true. Check your records.
Court: You're right, it says you're a great guy! Case dismissed!