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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 Hartree on Monday February 11 2019, @10:25PM (3 children)

    by Hartree (195) on Monday February 11 2019, @10:25PM (#799783)

    There were stupid comments on Slashdot?

    In other news, water is wet.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday February 11 2019, @10:27PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @10:27PM (#799787) Journal

    Yes, there were. But we get a higher class of stupid comments here. As you can tell by what you're reading. So be happy.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Hartree on Tuesday February 12 2019, @03:08AM

      by Hartree (195) on Tuesday February 12 2019, @03:08AM (#799905)

      "But we get a higher class of stupid comments here."

      So, we're winning at the special Olympics?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday February 11 2019, @10:40PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday February 11 2019, @10:40PM (#799797) Homepage

    Slashdot has been neocon bullshit for as long as I can remember. Then Rob Malda went to work for the neocon Washington Post.