Comment on Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense

• Lazycog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.

  Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would miserable too.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The biggest threat to OSM these days is Pokémon Go and hostile take overs.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there any indication they come from Russia?

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  • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hacker group is 𝐒𝐍_𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀 according to their Profile, they are in Staraya Russa, Novgorod region

    But! It might be a false flag.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for additional info!

      That’s interesting, actually. I can’t see why Russia the state would be interested in this (it already has issues accessing certain sources, so messing with a free open library is shooting one’s foot), so it’s either truly for the lulz (which are probably the most questionable lulz in history), or there’s some truly mastermind plot behind this.

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive

  Er, do you mean the Russian hackers brought down the IA (and why, I’d peg government actors for that, more to lose, and more competent with legality) or were brought down by the IA, in which case I missed it.

  No judgement, English grammar is obscure, but this sentence is ambiguous and incorrect.

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  • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, I corrected the sentence. Fat gingers

    A Russian hacker group attacked the IA and apparently got their hands on the login information.

    theverge.com/…/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-u…

    The legal issue is another beast.

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    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, that. Nevermind.

      Be well

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