Cyberattacks Easily Avenged, Says Shelob

 

8^{  Shelob says cyberattacks are easily avenged. He oughta know.-Shelob and Herr D

Your suggestion followed.

What?

You suggested that every Russian soldier who lays down arms, flees the Ukrainian front, testifies against Russia in international court in hopes of bring justice for some small fraction of the war crimes being done, should get money to start a new life with.

Yes?

The idea, and a virtual equivalent, has been offered.

I’m glad. I would’ve gone broke pledging a penny to every possible defector.

Wait.

What do you mean, a virtual equivalent?

An American hacker has offered 10$ bitcoin to any hacker in Russia who brings their entire country down virtually, including all radio communications at the rate of once per diem. 17 ISPs in Russia have been destroyed in much the same way they destroyed your computer 6 years ago.

I was amazed to receive a castoff computer the following day. How did you talk that guy into it?

It was Hairy. The senior citizen was impressed at a testimonial from Hairy. Hairy chatted with him about your patriotism and resolve and financial ruin and familial situation.

[sharp exhalation] Yeah, okay. I lost a lot of family photos in that.

They lost 101 terminals. There was cable damage as well.

How do you damage cable?

Overheat server, maintain temperature and deactivate fans until server crash.

That sounds dangerous.

There may have been 2 fires and 1 damaged fire suppression system. Your digital life was at risk.

Wow. Well, thanks again to ‘Old Bill’ for doing his part for this blog. I heard you got a new computer, and I hope we don’t have to impose again.

Shelob, why are the fonts different?

An attempted incursion. It will restore. [exits]

When China Breaks The Hammer And Sickle?

Herr D's "The Leader" does not actually contain the leader. The scared villains are scared of the leader out of frame. From story "Exit The Shadow."-Shelob.

 

You have not blogged.

I'm at work, Shelob. You have not blogged.

Shelob, I've got about 80k more lines of Cyrillic alphabet to double-check. PLEASE don't bother me now. You are code-breaking?

No, I don't know enough of the languages to do that. My company is one of many doing more pre-work in case there's a code that HASN'T been broken. [scans recent activity] Comparison charts? 

yes Lines 27, 41, 44, 94, 112 contain errors. They do not compare.

 don't  HAVE 112 It will arrive in your inbox momentarily. The Cyrillic alphabet is not as difficult to decrypt as most others. yet [e-mail arrival chimes, Herr D pauses, curses, makes vigorous motions with some part of upper body, probably arms]  !@#$%^&, Shelob! [changes posture] Well, that's an error in line 27, and, yes, I just got lines 101-200. [probable head shake] Your co-worker errs more right before midpoint of each segment.

You're looking at the work from yesterday? Yes.

[sounds of scribbling] I'll mention the tendency to him. I owe him. Can you tell me whether China will aid Russia?

I've no idea whether China wants Russia to fail or NATO to weaken. Probably both. China could get some cheap oil if they just turned on Russia and took out Putin. Couldn't be that hard. As many people as China is willing to toss away like garbage, they're bound to already have a way to do it in mind. I'm suffering burnout and I'm living in a free country. Thank you. Good luck with lines 140-150.

thanks [exits]

Putin Put In And Is Hopefully Put Out

"Duel" by heromachine.com.

 

Brave folk that protest in Russia--all arrested. In America they would not have been as long as they were peaceful and didn't block too much traffic. I especially love the announcement of the radio station that stopped regurgitating 'news.'

Is it time to practice metaphor?

[pause] if you like

If the Ukrainian leader used to be a comedian, does this mean he has made a joke out of Putin?

[pause] A horrible, tasteless, really old and lame joke that no one laughed at. Putin may have never brought joy to anyone like a comic can. The world would be better off without him.