Based on an analysis of Telegram posts and materials from open sources, HunterBook journalists identified at least nine Russian military units accused of war crimes, or individuals linked to these units, who are using Ubiquiti equipment.
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A reporter posing as an officer responsible for military procurement contacted Russian suppliers and several official Ubiquiti distributors in various countries worldwide.
Nearly a dozen sellers agreed to sell the banned export equipment. One supplier even provided letters of appreciation, which, according to him, were received for supplying Ubiquiti equipment to the Russian military.
edit what is the big gotcha about HunterBooker shorting the company it is writing articles about and doing an investigation into? Of course that should be taken into account, but so should the seriousness of evidence here independent of the grey areas of HunterBooker. If the evidence is substantial, that line of response is tangential to the point.
related links on this developing story I have collected
https://www.truehoop.com/p/thinking-like-robert-pera
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1qptq67/ubiquiti_the_us_tech_enabling_russias_drone_war/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1qp6ot4/investigation_80_of_russian_troops_linkups_on_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1qq9w3i/memphis_owner_allegations_getting_buried/
Aw man. I’m gonna have to stop buying their shit, and stop recommending it to friends :(
Which somewhat sucks, because until learning this, I considered them to be a rather good network infra manufacturers - especially compared to the vast majority of the consumer-grade shit that is on the market these days.
Edit: depending on what I can dig up on whether it was a third party who sold that shit on (which is often how end-running sanctions works), I may rescind that opinion. Evidently there’s a private equity group that massively shorted them, and they’re trying to get smear pieces to sink the stock price? Idk, I need to research it more, but that also absolutely sounds like some bullshit a PE firm would do. GameStop round 2, anyone? 💎 🙌 🤪
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.
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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.
