# Something else we can all do to help Ukrainians perhaps?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Tags:** ukraine-invasion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852 "2022-03-10T21:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![civilis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@civilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/civilis)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852/1 "2022-03-10T21:36:07Z")

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Why don’t Nato leaders advise their people the web addresses of Russian military and governmental institutions so that we can participate in denial of service attacks?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852/2 "2022-03-10T21:51:43Z")

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What would that accomplish? They’re not conducting business via the websites.

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**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852/3 "2022-03-11T01:28:48Z")

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Anyone capable of launching any kind of cyberattack doesn’t need the government’s help in finding a target.

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**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-else-we-can-all-do-to-help-ukrainians-perhaps/960852/4 "2022-03-11T13:53:54Z")

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I think a manual DDoS attack would be effectively impossible. It needs to be automated.