Some Russian IT people will join with you, just to see if you are good enough to catch them in their reverse of the Ukraine IT usage. Either way, they will chuckle.
That could be the case but I don't believe that they're going to let them in without a lengthy process to confirm that they're not in any way shape or form on the side of the enemy, plus there's a lot of Russian soldiers that are defecting to Ukraine right? Which means that there's a possibility that some Russian IT people might also consider defecting but now that I think about it, it's unlikely that they would since they're not in the frontlines. Also, wouldn't the people that are running this Telegram group be having some way to filter out who should be joining and who shouldn't, they'll probably even have to make you download a keylogger or maybe even reveal your identity or address so they can confirm that you're not serving on the other side of the fight.
No, it's a little different. Anyone from any country in the world can join. You just need to install the software and run it on your computer or VPS. No outsider will be able to change the attack targets.
No identity or address verification, complete anonymity to protect participants from russian terrorists
On the other hand, I wonder how dangerous is for someone with little to no experience in this kind of warfare to join into this cyber army, to attack a state. I wonder whether there would not be negative repercussions when one is identified by other countries as a cyber combatant. For example, within the European Union or the United States of America.
I have seen case of people travelling to the United States and being held in the airport because some strange internet activity they alledgely had, you know, searching about terror organizations and stuff like that. If someone happened to join these forces and by the end of the war (hopefully sooner than later) that person decided to take a plane to Barcelona or Miami, would one not get one's travel denied or being interrogated in the room of the airport because of one's involvement in this?
Just curious, because I don't think this kind of activity goes unnoticed by the governments of the USA and the EU.
IT ARMY of Ukraine is not a terrorist organization, so this is not a good comparison. At the moment, this is not prohibited in Ukraine, because we have a real war going on and our defenders and civilians are dying every day. Please note that IT ARMY of Ukraine was created with the assistance of the
Minister for Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhaylo Fedorov. And I think if they ever try to detain Ukrainians for this, everyone will say "We defended our country as best we could!". As for other countries, yes, such activities are prohibited in some, but there is a VPN for such purposes. This is in addition to the fact that all programs work through a proxy, so with a VPN, it will be like double hiding the user's real IP address.
Of course, the governments of the USA and the EU have noticed such activities. They are already learning from our military in this area. And we are only helping them to accelerate our victory over the russian terrorist country.
