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The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "planeta" (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Have you ever seen any academic IT systems? They are all underfunded ans run by grad students.

[–] cynar 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, they are often a case of accretion by generations of grad students and undergrads.

E.g. a university was redoing how it hosted student club websites. When it eventually killed the old hosting, 1 site stayed working. It was eventually tracked down to a little mini pc mounted above the false ceiling. It had been plodding away for 20 odd years, most of that without any maintenance at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Are we sure universities arent run by the cult Mechanicus?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

and here we have underfunded science with lots of russian corruption on top

real chance of backup system money disappearing in pockets...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You’re insulting grad students. ;) But yea, I imagine it is very underfunded!