Explanation for coders

[soid]

I've been coding too much lately.
Computer science major asks:

Hey guys, CS major here. So I decided to leave my room today. What is happening on campus?

To my understand, from reading online forms, there’s a war going on in another country. What does that have to do with Columbia? Better question perhaps is: what is the expected outcome of this protest?

Please explain such that a cs major would understand.

Not so long time ago, with the help of the British and Americans, Israelis wrote some code that is buggy, but kind of works and also makes a buck. Not so long time ago, Palestinians tried to throw away and rewrite that code their way; Israelis got pissed and revoked the git repository access for Palestinians, just exposing some poorly documented APIs for them. Last weekend hackers got the system down via the crappy API access. Everyone is shocked that they could even do it. Israelis will stop the crappy API access and let Palestinians go back to reading paper books and play checkers. Now, Palestinians are pissed and demand their own git repository after all. Israelis, then, argue that they will only use that repository for malicious purposes; the hacker will attempt to hack the system again if not completely wipe out the buggy code – hence they don’t deserve their own repository. One group condemns the hacker; the other group demands a git repository.

Comments

[paserbyp]

https://www.csoonline.com/article/655223/israel-palestine-conflict-extends-to-cyberspace.html?utm_date=20231014142758&utm_campaign=Top%20Enterprise%20Stories&utm_content=Title%3A%20Israel-Hamas%20conflict%20extends%20to%20cyberspace&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20IDG%27s%20Top%20Enterprise%20Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&huid=da4279ff-8863-4ca8-9d22-7e3b5e1332b6

[zyxman]

Это мне напомнило историю, как на российских джобсайтах появились вакансии для метростроевцев "на работу на ближнем востоке", народ смаковал, что за метро они там будут строить, потом оказалось что тоннели для Хамаза строят.

Тут думаю то же самое. Тоже периодически всплывает информация, что фсб охотно покупает эксплоиты и особенно ботнеты на черном рынке, итп.