Massive security breach: Russian nuclear facilities exposed online
Danwatch and Der Spiegel has gained access to hundreds of highly detailed blueprints showing how Russia is carrying out an enormous modernization of some of the
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Here's Danwatch's own public facing report (at the time of writing, really slow to open but eventually does - wondering whether Russians are doing some retaliatory DDOSsing); it seems to be mainly about upgrading Russian nuclear base facilities, but at a really detailed level, really consequential stuff. I suspect that with the current Russian regimes' mindset they cannot help but rework their latest upgrades. That will impose much strain on their already stretched resources. Electricity, water, what have you, all essential to the security and functioning of these sites, available for research.
I've seen Russian databases being exploited for all sorts of (semi-) open source research; comparing apples and oranges here, but this is right up there in terms of impressiveness to unmasking GRU operatives' years-long trails through Europe, blowing up munitions depots and poisoning defectors. Kudos, Danwatch, painstaking work from single document level up. Hopefully Western intelligence agencies have also been proficient enough to exploit these resources but there are examples of them lagging behind open source efforts.
