{"id":5051,"date":"2022-03-15T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-the-300000-volunteer-hackers-coming-together-to-fight-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:36:04","slug":"its-the-right-thing-to-do-the-300000-volunteer-hackers-coming-together-to-fight-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-the-300000-volunteer-hackers-coming-together-to-fight-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s the right thing to do\u2019: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine appealed for a global army of IT experts to help in the battle against Putin \u2013 and many answered the call. We speak to people on the digital frontline<\/p>\n<p>Kali learned how to use technology by playing with his grandfather\u2019s phone. Now, the Swiss teenager is trying to paralyse the digital presence of the Russian government and the Belarussian railway.<\/p>\n<p>Kali \u2013 and many others who contributed to this article \u2013 declined to share his real name because some of the action he is taking is illegal and because he fears Russian retaliation. He one of about 300,000 people who have signed up to a group on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/mar\/05\/telegram-app-ukraine-rides-high-thirst-trustworthy-news\" title=\"\">the chat app Telegram<\/a> called \u201cIT Army of Ukraine\u201d, through which participants are assigned tasks designed to take the fight to Vladimir Putin. In so doing, they are trying to level the playing field between one of the world\u2019s superpowers and Ukraine as it faces bombardment and invasion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/volunteer-hackers-fight-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b2d3ec0ddc2bf1e76dd07b503a0156fae03c1962\/0_0_4459_2676\/master\/4459.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eac311aee6bf546c7e120eb0c5841a44\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s the right thing to do\u2019: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia\" \/>Ukraine appealed for a global army of IT experts to help in the battle against Putin \u2013 and many answered the call. We speak to people on the digital frontline<br \/>\nKali learned how to use technology by playing with his grandfather\u2019s phone. Now, the Swiss teenager is trying to paralyse the digital presence of the Russian government and the Belarussian railway.<br \/>\nKali \u2013 and many others who contributed to this article \u2013 declined to share his real name because some of the action he is taking is illegal and because he fears Russian retaliation. He one of about 300,000 people who have signed up to a group on the chat app Telegram called \u201cIT Army of Ukraine\u201d, through which participants are assigned tasks designed to take the fight to Vladimir Putin. In so doing, they are trying to level the playing field between one of the world\u2019s superpowers and Ukraine as it faces bombardment and invasion. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine appealed for a global army of IT experts to help in the battle against Putin \u2013 and many answered the call. We speak to people on the digital frontline Kali learned how to use technology by playing with his grandfather\u2019s phone. Now, the Swiss teenager is trying to paralyse the digital presence of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-the-300000-volunteer-hackers-coming-together-to-fight-russia\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s the right thing to do\u2019: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}