I'm inclined to agree with OSI and EFF that the reputational damage to FLOSS from these particular stunts is inestimable. Speaking only for myself, but 99% of my attraction to open source technologies is actually repulsion from monetized technologies, which I see as (necessarily, as if it's a law of economics) a minefield of hidden gotchas, hidden antifeatures, hidden dependencies, even exploitation of the fact that 90% of people don't read the accompanying text.
As usual, whenever we wish to discuss hacking, definitional issues arise. Does hacking include cracking? Does it include cybercrime? Does it include acts of cyberwar? I don't honestly know. I don't even know whether "hacking" should have a positive or negative connotation. For what it's worth, the understanding of hacking that I find most useful so far comes from Phineas Fisher:
Hacking, in its purest form, is not about engineering: it is about leveraging power dynamics by short-circuiting technology. It is direct action for the new digital world we all live in.
So far, I'd rate the Lenta hack as the best of the anti-Putin hacks. I hope to see some more devastating ones, especially from non-state actors, although figuring out which is which is probably literally impossible in the fog of war.
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I'm inclined to agree with OSI and EFF that the reputational damage to FLOSS from these particular stunts is inestimable. Speaking only for myself, but 99% of my attraction to open source technologies is actually repulsion from monetized technologies, which I see as (necessarily, as if it's a law of economics) a minefield of hidden gotchas, hidden antifeatures, hidden dependencies, even exploitation of the fact that 90% of people don't read the accompanying text.
As usual, whenever we wish to discuss hacking, definitional issues arise. Does hacking include cracking? Does it include cybercrime? Does it include acts of cyberwar? I don't honestly know. I don't even know whether "hacking" should have a positive or negative connotation. For what it's worth, the understanding of hacking that I find most useful so far comes from Phineas Fisher:
So far, I'd rate the Lenta hack as the best of the anti-Putin hacks. I hope to see some more devastating ones, especially from non-state actors, although figuring out which is which is probably literally impossible in the fog of war.