Richard Fernandez (facebook) – Suddenly it’s no longer safe to be an international big wheel: an oligarch, decorated general, intelligence colonel. The age of sending cannon fodder against the guns has been replaced by the targeted hit. Fame is no longer a luxury. Invisibility is.
Today, if you scanned and counted public-facing Russian servers and other devices, the country would appear smaller than Romania or Sweden, states with 5-10 times smaller populations.
Before October 15th, 2024, Russia had around 920,000 public internet-facing devices and services. These publicly exposed IP addresses include a wide range of networked devices and services, such as routers, email servers, VPN servers, various web panels, load balancers, video systems, and other software or connected hardware.
Overnight, almost half of these devices disappeared, the ShadowServer Foundation IoT data reveals.
The number briefly spiked above two million devices before the end of 2024 and then collapsed again even further. The publicly visible Russian internet infrastructure remains close to 270,000 devices this year.
Game of Drones.
Because if they can zero in on your phone, in real-time (and they can), then you better not be carrying that thing if you p1ssed someone off.
#BillGates must be having a cow right about now. A whole world full of angry computer nerds that hate Windows…
“The US now has a 26 times larger footprint on the internet compared to Russia. According to security experts, trends in Russia leave the country more secure from online threats. And this serves as an example for the US.”
Only 26x?
They should be boarding up the windows, as well, most defenestrations of anywhere in the world!!