Not unless you are buying Power or Nano beams. The equipment being used by Russian forces is the stuff that WISPs use, not the stuff that most people use at home or even their business.

You also need to know that the source for these allegations is Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital and that Hunter Capital shorted Ubiquiti’s stock…which means they need UIs share price to go down so they can make money.

This isn’t a “reveal”, it’s a hit piece funded by Hunter Capital. They shorted Ubiquiti’s stock and they NEED the share price to go down so they can make money.

This article is based on a hit piece written by Hunter Media which is owned by Hunter Capital…who has shorted UIs stock. They need UIs stock price to go down so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there with Hunter Media’s research but even that is meant to leave the reader with the impression that UI is up to no good.

Aw man. I’m gonna have to stop buying their shit, and stop recommending it to friends :(

That’s exactly what Hunter Capital wants. It’s why they paid for the research that Hunter Media (the source of this article) did, why they spent more money to get a carefully written hit piece that pushes a narrative, and why they are spending even more money pushing this into the media.

Hunter Capital shorted UIs stock and they NEED the price to drop so they can make money. There’s a much longer article out there but even it is hit piece meant to leave the reader with the impression that Ubiquiti is somehow directly involved in this or doing nothing about it, both of which are false.

There is a MUCH more in depth article available and I wrote a comment that addresses most of your points. You can find it here: https://lemmy.today/post/46512183/21904347

One of the MANY things this article isn’t telling you is that the source is Hunter Media, which is owned by Hunter Capital who has shorted Ubiquiti’s stock.

…I’m not sure how much power they have to lock down remote devices completely,

They have zero ability to shut them down and that’s if they can even tell they’re being used. These aren’t the “normal” Ubiquiti products that most people use, they are WISP type equipment meant to be used for long range Point to Point or Multipoint connections. They can easily be run without internet access at all.

Do they take action against their official distributors or is this just their policy the official distributors are following?

Considering more than a few of their global official distributors have been shut down by US authorities I’m confident in saying that they are already taking action. They’ve also taken action to ban updates to Ubiquiti equipment that is in use inside Russia but even that is of limited value when geo-location is impossible or wildly imprecise.

It ain’t Ubiquiti selling that gear to them. Better luck next time.

This is a narrative being pushed by a capital investment group that’s shorting Ubiquiti stock.

Oh look, a hit piece put out by a media company that’s owned by a capital investment group that is shorting UIs stock…I wonder what this could be about?!

Ubiquiti may not be blameless but this article is ridiculous.

Ubi isn’t selling this stuff to the Russians and neither are their vendors. Their vendors, most of them in the article are from overseas, are selling them to middle-men who sell them to another middle-man who then physically gets the equipment into Russian hands where it potentially goes through ANOTHER middle man before its used by Russian troops. There’s almost no way to control that and if you read carefully the “legal experts” quoted toward the bottom of the article use some very careful language in order to not tell you this.

You can’t just “shut it down” either, although even the article notes that Ubi is trying. Most of the gear that’s getting into Russian military hands for use in the war is stuff that you have probably never used. It’s PowerBeam and NanoBeam product that’s most often used by WISPs, which makes sense because that’s precisely how Russian forces are using it. What the article isn’t telling you is that this stuff does NOT need hooked to the Cloud in order to function. In fact it doesn’t need Internet access at all and so there’s no way for Ubi to know where it’s being used or even that it’s been powered up!

Even if Ubi can tell that the equipment is powered on and in use they may not know where it’s at with sufficient accuracy or knowledge to do anything about it. The damn thing could be on the Internet via Starlink sitting in Pokrovsk. On December 1st, 2025 was a SL system with Ubi gear attached to it in Pokrovsk being operated by Russia or Ukraine? There’s literally no way for Ubi or anyone else to know.

As for Ubi doing more if you read the whole article you’ll find that more than a few of these bad distributors HAVE been caught and shut down across the globe which almost certainly means that Ubi is helping at some level.

In short the article looks bad but when you start breaking down the individual points it quickly falls apart, especially when the media company behind it has a monetary interest in sinking Ubiquiti’s stock.

@Raptor_007@lemmy.world

Nah, according to the article this is mostly the WISP type stuff, particularly the Power and Nano beam products meant for Long Range Point to Point / Multi Point connections. This isn’t routers / switches / etc.

Tech Aura. If you have it you understand. If you don’t then you watch in awed frustration as the computer that refused to work 10 seconds ago suddenly starts behaving when I.T. touches it. As an aside you know your I.T. are real wizards when stuff starts working just because they walked in the room or answered the phone. :)

This administration is going to have to decide if they want to get into a pissing contest with the 2A community.

The NRA has remained silent when white guys got shot as well. It’s not a race thing its a bootlicking thing. That’s why this mild rebuke is a big deal, they don’t normally say a damn thing when LE shoots someone regardless of the victims race or ethnicity.

Take a deep breath folks, its about to get wild.

Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.

Windows is a closed source and proprietary commercial Operating System. Microsoft is going to do whatever they like with it. If enough people get angry about an issue they may change their mind but that doesn’t change the nature of Microsoft’s ownership over their products.

I’ve been participating in discussion about what Microsoft should and shouldn’t do since the late 80s and it pretty much boils down to this: You need to select and use software that works the way you want it to. So if you don’t want MS to have your disk encryption key then don’t use Windows. If you don’t want MS to have access to your documents then don’t put them on any system that MS has control over.

It can be terrible inconvenient to protect your data in this way but this part and parcel of the privacy movement.

It may seem that way but I’m really not. An encryption key is just data. It’s critical security data to be sure but it’s still data and like other data you shouldn’t share anything that you wouldn’t want made public.

Don’t want MS to cough up your data when asked? Then don’t give it to them. In regards to your BL key that means storing it another way, such as on a jump drive or printing it out.

In the end if you have data of any type that you absolutely DO NOT want made public then you need to retain that data locally. If that means leaving the Microsoft or any other ecosystem then that’s the price that needs paid for keeping your data under your control.

This is the foundation of the entire privacy movement.

We do and you’ll note that the article didn’t specify which US troops partipated in this exercise. If it was troops stationed in Alaska then it’s bad, if it was troops stationed in Missouri then it’s understandable.

You also have to remember that the US expects to lose during exercises, especially when engaging subject matter experts like the Finns in the Arctic.

This is how they learn and get better.

The encryption key is data, don’t give it to ANYONE. “Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”

The word “Gave” is really doing some heavy lifting in that title. Microsoft produced the keys in response to a warrant as required by law.

If you don’t want a company, any company, to produce your data when given a warrant then you can’t give the company that data. At all. Ever.

Not fast food joints, not Uber, not YouTube, not even the grocery store.

It’s not just EXO, even Azure is shitting the bed.

It’s easy to do. Mine is a reolink piped through Home Assistant.