Swedish media in regards with Akira’s alleged hack of #TietoEvry are playing “the Russian angle”, basically suggesting this has to do with the NATO process that Sweden is in. There feasibly might be some truth to it, but it’s fairly sloppy journalism to focus on that without also criticizing the outsourcing of governmental and municipal IT and the hunt for profit by keeping staff costs low and skeleton crews at a minimum. To me, the vulnerability and shoddiness of it all has a lot to do with the neoliberal turn and the downsizing of the state. Would be interesting to hear THAT angle mentioned from time to time instead of the free market kerfuffle.
Again, not saying that this had nothing to do with Russia the country, but the simpleminded automatic connection between inhabitants of a state and the state itself is just lazy attribution imo. #tietoevry #akira #randomware #sweden