I study Russian foreign policy, cyber security, arms control
The purpose of labeling hackers extremists is not really clear. It would imply that their activities are prohibited in Russia, which makes no difference when it comes to cyber attacks
The designation would likely be used in foreign policy rhetoric & for international warrants
Davis Center's abandoned domain for the Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations is now a "Russian dating site." Sweet that the new owner still pays homage to the original project & keeps US-Russia Future in the head
Oleg Shakirov
U.S. concerns about China's prepositioning in critical systems are somewhat similar to Soviet/Russian fears in the early 90s that the U.S. could change parity through backdoors in imported tech
Here's one example from an article by military officer turned scholar Rafael Yusupov
A bit contradictory
The German officer: yeah, we can learn from the Ukrainians. But their narrative in this game wasn't consistent, so they lost
A Ukrainian participant: but there is no consistent narrative in the real world, that's what you could learn
www.ft.com/content/cda1...
Oleg Shakirov
More on the Russia-U.S. extradition battle over Obrezko
bsky.app/profile/shak...
AI firms put a lot of effort into creating safety mechanisms to prevent LLMs from generating harmful outputs
Malware developers can exploit the same guardrails by hiding payload behind nuclear & bio weapons-linked instructions to trick AI-driven scanners
socket.dev/blog/mini-sh...
Russia's Supreme Court will consider designating Belarusian Cyber Partisans & Silent Crow extremist organizations—the 1st time extremism legislation might be applied to cyber actors
This is likely because of the attack on Aeroflot claimed by both groups
www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/...
