I would totally attend that lunch.
First off, the story doesn't back up the hed. All we know for certain is that these "hacking tools" are being offered. Apparently, some of these channels charge for entry ...
Often, the group’s report says, access to Telegram channels would cost between €20 ($23) and €50 or have subscriptions starting at €5 per month.
I'm not excusing the exploitative nature of these groups, but this sounds more like grifting than hacking. I expect better from Wired. Also, we've known for years now that Telegram is leaky as fuck.
The whole situation is a bit baffling. "Here's something everyone knows has been going on for a while" ain't exactly stop-press.
All I hear from that context is "slow news day."
Pick one. You can't have both.
That question works way better when talking about sexual preferences than mundane corporate bullshit.
Anything you still need a 486 for outside of hardware edge cases is handled far better and faster by a Pi Zero W, at a fraction of the power envelope. Thing is, they won't be running Linux in that case, given vendor lock-in.
You can only fight the system for so long before capitulating. You know what they don't want you to know? The meaning of the term.
'Twas the Bard that gave it away.
I mean, at least I'm talking with my ex-wife again, so that's less irritating than it had been.
(These are separate people.)
What are you running on a 486 these days that needs to be online? A pihole? Like, even if this is a CNC controller or vinyl cutter (if you need a dongle to run your output, this is a valid concern; not a lot of parallel ports hanging out on mobos these days), the internet is not required.

At least Russia knows how to keep interference under the radar. This is abject.