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by 0xDEAFBEAD 569 days ago
>I suspect that if it was possible to do anything significant to Russian infrastructure via hacking, it would have already happened by now.

Alternatively, maybe it is possible, but the US doesn't want to escalate? You saw how reluctant Biden was to authorize missile strikes inside Russia.

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Hacking would just be tit-for-tat at most, and unlikely to be accepted as a good reason for major escalations. Most likely Russian infrastructure is just too old to be vulnerable in the same ways as Western infrastructure.
At the price I've quoted, it isn't Biden's decision, it's something Zelensky could order directly from Ukranian taxes as a rounding error.

At least, if it was possible.

My understanding is that Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine have been rather ineffectual due to Ukrainian cyber defenses.