Post #4321785

2026-07-31 12:11 UTC

Some summary of recent events for people not living in Poland: So a russian missile hit us “by mistake” again. Today, everyone got an SMS from MSWiA (ministry of interior security and administration) via emergency messaging system saying just “be prepared” (lol) and a link to gov site. They said a few years ago that emergency messages will never include links (they lied, and it’s not the first time, as this system was once used to remind people to vote lol).It wasn’t a proper URL but just a domain (for a mild inconvenience).Everyone opened it which DDoSed the site.

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@nrab@hachyderm.io 2026-07-31 12:30

@j-g00da@donotsta.re the fact that a static government hosted site can be ddosed summarizes just how incompetent the whole ministry is

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@witix@mk.absturztau.be 2026-07-31 13:02

@j-g00da@donotsta.re this is why I block Alert RCB

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@ladypretzal@transfem.social 2026-07-31 13:04

@j-g00da@donotsta.re we love when countries actually test their web infra T^T

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@crittero@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 15:51

@j-g00da@donotsta.re Lol, in Romania they use emergency messaging every time a person goes missing, with a link to the police website, and every single time the website crashes. I don't think there are any DevOps people in this country anymore.

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@elly@donotsta.re 2026-07-31 19:48

@j-g00da@donotsta.re I also find it ironic how useless RCB is. Every other country I know deployed proper EAS to warn people about a possible danger or even threat to their life. In Poland you get a text message which you'll likely miss if something really *does* happen (I regularly find about it hours after receiving it because my phone is permanently in silent mode and is only used for banking and accepting calls as that's not something my main phone can do at the moment (xiaomi-pyxis w/postmarketOS)

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