This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank-Call Russian Officials

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This Hacktivist Site Lets You Prank-Call Russian Officials
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“This war started inside Moscow and St. Petersburg, within the power circle of Putin, and that’s who we want to annoy and disturb.”

of Russians' emails and other private information. The Ukrainian government itself at one point released a list of what it said were the names and contact details of 620 Russian intelligence agents.

WasteRussianTime.today is designed to work by starting a VoIP call, automatically dialing 40 of the leaked phone numbers, and merging the user into a three-way call with the first two Russian officials' phones that connect. The site's creators say they decided not to let visitors to the site actually speak on the calls, for fear that they might say something that could identify and endanger themselves.

The site's creators say the idea for WasteRussianTime.today came about 24 hours after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February. As the hacktivist group discussed ways of protesting or disrupting the war, their brainstorming eventually turned to how they might be able to create a site that used leaked Russian phone numbers to allow visitors to call ordinary Russian citizens and speak to them about the invasion.

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