Thread by @cemper

The #YandexLeak is a "political" statement.

All the 100 GB files in the source code archive seem to have the same file date - Feb 24, 2022 - when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine.

It's a subtle hint that Putin will not get control over Yandex.

#yandex #yandexleak

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That leak was an inside job, a highly privileged user - someone as powerful as the legendary "Matt Cutts" of Google...

So "political" means, for me, some kind of "defense" against the Putin regime having too much say in Yandex...

#yandex #yandexleak #leak #Russia

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Yandex already open-sourced for example, the amazing Clickhouse database successfully, and in a way, they now "open-sourced," so many other Yandex quality products, which could be seen as a strong political statement in the future.

#yandex #yandexleak #leak #Russia

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Given quality and completeness, it's more a "release" than a "hack," it seems.

It maybe also goes down in history as an example of the international "info war" or whatever it will be dubbed in the future.

Opinion: my own
Artwork: AIPRM + ChatGPT to create Midjourney Prompt

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