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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.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Knowledge Troll on Monday February 11 2019, @08:53PM (1 child)
It's only been 2 or 3 years since Russia blocked Amazon Web Services when a previous attempt at censorship failed. They wanted content removed from the Internet and cited Russian law. The people with the content moved it to AWS as a work around. Russia blocked AWS to work around the work around.
They discovered a lot of dependence on AWS when infrastructure started failing including banks. The blocks had to be undone because the impact on the public was bad.
They won't have that problem after this do this a few time to shake the bugs out.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by isostatic on Monday February 11 2019, @09:29PM
Parts of AWS IP space was still blocked at the world cup -- couldn't get to a lightsail server I had.