Russia cut off its troops from Discord, the video gaming comms tool they use to coordinate attacks in Ukraine

Don't worry, Russian military. I know a company in Hungary that sells pagers and walkie-talkies in bulk to facilitate communication.

so much for second best army in the world

Why doesn't Russia just use the Russian state-sponsored communication platform?

What do you mean 80 year old radios keyed to commercial bands aren't adequate in 2024?!?!

This is absolutely bizarre and a disgrace to the Russian military that this was even a thing. Like, Russia has complete in-house comm systems, all the way down to the silicon. They're as elegant as charcoal clothing iron, but at least they're secure. In fact, they're so paranoid about NSA plants that they even force businesses to use in-house encryption to submit accounting reports. And then the same idiots allow risking lives of officers by using random software in a command center...

Though I feel like the response is also far from best. There are numerous alternatives they can switch to, so the ban is mostly going to only hit innocent gamers. It'd be much more impactful if they just silently handed access to those channels over to Ukrainians.

Is nobody in the world capable of forwarding encrypted RTP packets besides Discord? Seriously we had VOIP figured out before we had internet Figured out I don’t think we have to forwards all our communication through adversarial governments to communicate locally.

There can't seriously be respectable, noteworthy people in Russia saying that banning Discord is a mistake because it helps the Russian military. That's bizzaro world stuff even for them.

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