I don't think there is much you can do about being targeted by a military, simply because of how unique the attack vector is.

Hacking is smart but happens through software, so if you have hardware (i.e. physical) barriers, that stops the hacking.

Natural disasters happen physically but they are dumb, so if you have software redundancy (i.e. by copying the data to multiple locations), that stops them from destroying everything.

A military is both physical AND smart. They can target multiple locations at once and destroy whole buildings.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't think there is much you can do about being targeted by a military, simply because of how unique the attack vector is.

You could choose not to invade other countries.

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loeg 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This (as with defense) is kind of outside Google or Yandex's purview.

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phatfish 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yandex is a part of Russia's military. Just the same as Google, MS, Amazon etc. provide services for the US military. Google et al. are probably in the critical path of defence for most European countries as well, insane though that is.

	▲	ivan_gammel 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not defending Yandex here, but I think their military involvement might be as accidental as of an American farmer whose beef landed in the cantina of aircraft carrier. Government and military procurement in Russia is its own universe, with strong players having specific IT expertise and capable of building DCs and tech. Assuming that everywhere in the world it’s the same as in America is wrong. Consumer tech companies aren’t operating this way usually, it is the scale of American Big Tech that allows them to compete with traditional contractors.

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jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Said every company serving fascists ever.

No, you can choose to collaborate or you can shut it down.

Collaborators don't get to point back in time and say 'oh we had no choice', even if the choice was a painful one. Sorry it does not work that way.

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AlienRobot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess, but that doesn't sound like something in the control of a single individual company.

	▲	jacquesm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They control their own individual contribution.

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whatdouthink 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But apparently this does not apply to you.

	▲	jacquesm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At least one russian shill that isn't affected by the Yandex strikes. Let's see how the rest of them fares, HN has its fair share of these characters.

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simondotau 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can learn to quickly diversify availability (or at least data safety) beyond the region of conflict when a kinetic war breaks out. The moment “kinetic sanctions” became the strategy, the risk to data centres should have been self-evident. And if it wasn’t immediately obvious, it should have been blindingly so when targeting expanded from oil refineries to Wildberries warehouses.

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ivan_gammel 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don‘t think you can build a new data center in such a short time frame that passed since attacks on WB, definitely not when you can source hardware only from the black market.

	▲	simondotau an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not describing what Yandex should do, but rather what their customers should do. Whether that means diversifying to eastern Russia, or China, or Belarus, I don’t know what options exist.