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From the Russian perspective Andrei Medvedev: "Regarding attacks on Yandex's data centers.Today is October 11th, right? A month ago, on September 10th, I wrote about Arkady Volozh, the former CEO of Yandex, who became a strategic partner of the American company Palantir, the leading contractor for military AI in the US.Here's a quote from my previous post:"There's no doubt that Arkady Volozh will give the Americans at Palantir everything he knows about the Russian IT sector, our vulnerabilities, and our capabilities (or challenges) in development. In fact, he's already done so. EU sanctions aren't lifted for just anyone.Here's the picture: Palantir, the world's number one company in the field of military AI, hires Fedorov, who understands everything about drones, automation of processes, and combat operations with groups of drones, and Volozh, who is providing data on vulnerabilities. In this equation, the answer is more than obvious to me. Palantir is already active in Ukraine, fighting against us. All target designation and targeting in Russia in real-time is done by Alex Karp.Now, with the help of Volozh and Fedorov, they will start working on long-range AI-powered drones designed primarily for the Russian theater of military operations, taking into account all the data that the former Yandex team has. I wouldn't be surprised if they still have access to the company's mapping databases, and not through a backdoor, but directly.And most likely, the next task will be to develop AI-powered drone swarms.There's no reason to panic. There is a reason to think ahead, to figure out what to do, what to work on, to assess our own vulnerabilities, and to conduct a review of the IT sector from the perspective of threats to national security. Because only a fool would think that this unholy alliance of Karp, Fedorov, and Volozh is not aimed against Russia."A month has passed. It turns out I was wrong in only one thing. They didn't start developing drone swarms (although, perhaps, they are also working on that). Volozh, Karp, and Fedorov are now dismantling Yandex's infrastructure. The key here is to strike at the right place, at the most vulnerable point of each data center. Who knows this secret? Well, it's obvious.And you know what? For all these years, Yandex in Russia has been trying its best to remain outwardly neutral in the war. Ukrainian songs about "dirty Muscovites" were not removed from
http://Yandex.Music for a long time, and the service's maps interpreted Crimea and Novorossiya in a very ambiguous way. Well, that's the nature of an international service; you have to be neither hot nor cold. But this didn't protect the data centers.The former CEO is simply taking revenge on his former colleagues for staying and working in Russia.And for the fact that, despite all outward neutrality, they are still working to strengthen the Russian IT industry, paying taxes in Russia, and Yandex's services are among the best in the world, and these services make life more comfortable for everyone in Russia.But according to the trio of Karp, Fedorov, and Volozh, the Russian people should suffer. That's why they formed this unholy alliance.And, of course, it's always interesting to observe the workings of the American state machine, which one head is begging for diesel and asking for an end to the attacks on Ukraine, while another continues to fight and think about how to inflict direct damage on the Russian economy and people.As for Volozh, I'll just say this: our problem, as Russians, is that we often, in a Christian way, mistakenly assume that people have qualities like decency, even when they don't.Well, he left. He disagreed. He was given money to take. He runs his business where he wants. But no. He had to become a policeman. It's amazing.However, in all such stories, there is always one ending. Always. New friends and partners will eventually say, "What do we care?"And that's it."