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Russia Plans Brief Disconnection From the Internet for Internal Traffic Test

posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 11 2019, @08:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the in-soviet-russia dept.

takyon writes:

Russia plans to 'unplug' from internet

Russia is planning to briefly disconnect from the internet as part of planning for a future cyber-war. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally.

A law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to Russia's parliament last year.

The test is due to happen before 1 April but no exact date has been set.

The draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires Russia's ISPs to ensure that it can operate in the event of foreign powers acting to isolate the country online.

[...] The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by jimbrooking on Monday February 11 2019, @08:21PM (6 children)

    by jimbrooking (3465) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @08:21PM (#799725)

    No spammers, no DDOS attacke, no hackers from Russian sources? Hope the test lasts, say 25 years.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday February 11 2019, @08:31PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday February 11 2019, @08:31PM (#799737) Journal

    They'll just launch previously scheduled attacks from a nearby country.

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    • (Score: 1, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Monday February 11 2019, @08:41PM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday February 11 2019, @08:41PM (#799743) Journal

      One CIA to spoof them all... Judging by mass media reports, it's working like a charm.

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday February 11 2019, @09:28PM

      by Bot (3902) on Monday February 11 2019, @09:28PM (#799757) Journal

      hehe nice thinking, it would be like signing the attack though. So it's probably the Chinese that will experiment a bit knowing that the blame would fall on Russians. At least, that's what Putin wants you to believe.

      I suggest giving the final touches to the porn collection you built over time and that rivals the rest of the internet in quality and quantity, downloading all your email, git pulling the projects you need most, getting the full archives of your distro, getting gnunet or other mesh network software, getting server software, an alternative OS like genode or openbsd, and prepare for web 3.0, not world wide anymore.

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    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Monday February 11 2019, @10:04PM

      by zocalo (302) on Monday February 11 2019, @10:04PM (#799771)
      The state-sponsored stuff, sure, and they probably do at least some of that anyway, just for plausible deniability and obfuscation of the actual operator behind a given attack. The various home/business user's PCs co-opted into botnets and VMs hosted at "bullet proof" hosting farms used by both state and/or criminal actors located within Russia though, not so much. I suspect that combined capacity for cyberwarfare of a *lot* countries will be reduced during this exercise. Some more than others, of course, but I doubt you'll be able to infer too much from it.
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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 11 2019, @10:26PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @10:26PM (#799785) Journal

    The cyberattack side of the military doesn't have to be offline.

    In fact, if the cyberattack side of the military is engaged in a digital pearl harbor attack, then it would be good for the rest of the entire country to be off the net to prevent retaliation attacks.

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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Monday February 11 2019, @11:48PM

    by legont (4179) on Monday February 11 2019, @11:48PM (#799838)

    Very few attacks are coming from Russia. There are numerous live maps. For example, this one https://www.deteque.com/live-threat-map/ [deteque.com]

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