"Ukraine’s ‘IT Army’
We’ve created an IT army, which was joined by 200,000 people and those individuals that wanted to help Ukraine to fight against Russia. So on the first day, we completely took down the Kremlin website, their stock exchange web services, their government services portal was down and there’s so much more still down. And it turns out, they were not ready.
We’ve been attacked for eight years. And I can compare this with Microsoft Windows, because so many hackers wanted to break Microsoft Windows for so many years, so eventually they built the most protected operating system—you can’t just penetrate it because they had so much experience in protecting their system. So I think a very similar thing happened with Ukrainian cyber infrastructure.
Cutting Russia off from the digital economy
Hundreds of companies have left Russia, and our ultimate goal—we were asking Visa and Mastercard and then they eventually left—but now we think our top priority is to block the [ Apple Inc. ] App Store and Google Play from Russia completely.
A lot of Russian citizens think that this is OK to send the army into another country. So we wanted to show them that it won’t happen without consequences."
There could be hope for us ... yet... if Putin and China don't exterminate us in the west...
We’ve created an IT army, which was joined by 200,000 people and those individuals that wanted to help Ukraine to fight against Russia. So on the first day, we completely took down the Kremlin website, their stock exchange web services, their government services portal was down and there’s so much more still down. And it turns out, they were not ready.
We’ve been attacked for eight years. And I can compare this with Microsoft Windows, because so many hackers wanted to break Microsoft Windows for so many years, so eventually they built the most protected operating system—you can’t just penetrate it because they had so much experience in protecting their system. So I think a very similar thing happened with Ukrainian cyber infrastructure.
Cutting Russia off from the digital economy
Hundreds of companies have left Russia, and our ultimate goal—we were asking Visa and Mastercard and then they eventually left—but now we think our top priority is to block the [ Apple Inc. ] App Store and Google Play from Russia completely.
A lot of Russian citizens think that this is OK to send the army into another country. So we wanted to show them that it won’t happen without consequences."
There could be hope for us ... yet... if Putin and China don't exterminate us in the west...
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