[thatguy0900]

The real reason this shouldn't be allowed is because the internet is absolutely not secure enough for citizens from one country to start attacking other countries. You think it's funny to wipe a Russians hard drive with a heart but I garuntee what they do back out of spite won't be. The very epitome of throwing rocks from glass houses.

[tetha]

I'm not even sure if we have to consider retribution why this is a bad idea. There is no control over the blast radius this has. It could hit anything, from a military or criminal system (possibly doing something you could consider good) down to any kind of hospital, humanitarian organization, an org collecting data against putin. In any kind of conventional weapon used by a western state, such a lack of control would be a huge no-go.

[Mountain_Skies]

It's not just the internet that's not secure enough, the physical world is very insecure for most of us too. There are lots of entities in Russia that aren't even related to the government that have the ability to reach out and roughly touch the maintainer. Any crime syndicate that was impacted by this is a potential threat to him now. It's pretty reckless to indiscriminately cause damage this way.

[rosndo]

> There are lots of entities in Russia that aren't even related to the government that have the ability to reach out and roughly touch the maintainer. Any crime syndicate that was impacted by this is a potential threat to him now.

This is some weird fanfic. Russia is dangerous, but you have to do A LOT for those dangers to follow you outside of the country (much less to the US!)

It’s hard enough for Russians to get visas to travel to the west, and in the west you actually go to prison.

FWIW my wife fled Russia after her driver was shot and killed by the mob in an effort to get at her father.