r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/JMurdock77 19h ago

It’s uncomfortable for some to recognize how much their worldview was being fed to them wholesale by an adversary.

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u/PrizeSyntax 18h ago

I mean,. it's been in the news the last 10 years, bots, algorithms, dark patterns, all kinds of crap states and corporations pull on is just to manipulate us. I don't think it's somekind of news

Edit, if ppl think this is somehow a unique Russian thing, yeah I have got news for you

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u/FlyingRigatoniMonst 18h ago

More bots than people in the us right now

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/north-america

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u/ShutterPriority 18h ago

And those are just the ones that actually choose to be counted as bots, not the ones trying to appear as a human.

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u/FlyingRigatoniMonst 16h ago

So this is kinda interesting. A huge slice of the bot traffic in the US is from Virginia.

I can’t put an image here but you can look at the link and see it yourself. 28% in the last week.
Next closest is Cali at something like 11%. What’s in Virginia? Govt shit?

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 15h ago

I'm intrigued as well.

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u/grumpy_ta 13h ago

What’s in Virginia? Govt shit?

Obviously there are government departments/agencies in Virginia, but there's tons of potential sources in the state that are non-government. For example:

  • AWS US East 1
  • Google US East 4
  • MS Azure East US and East US 2

Plus there's tons of data centers for colocation and companies that aren't at the top of the tech food chain. Virginia just has a ton of data centers.

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u/thebuzzinyourear 10h ago

Biggest naval base in the world is in Norfolk.