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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 04 2019, @12:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the predatorski-cometh dept.

A new, and controversial, law went into effect this week in Russia. 'The National Digital Economy Program" was

signed by President Vladimir Putin in May, it requires Russian[sic] to route traffic through nodes under the control of the Russian Government. ISPs are obliged to install technical devices provided by the authorities to allow traffic inspection.

Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow and the deployment of technical hardware provided by the government could open the door to a massive surveillance

Russian authorities will be able to censor online content and to spy on persons of interest.

According to the Russian government, the law aims at ensuring that Russian sites will be reachable even if disconnected to the global internet, a scenario that could result from a cyber attack or an outage caused by an incident.

Russia also recently announced annual tests disconnecting from the global internet to assess the impacts of such a move.

Currently none of the twelve top level DNS providers are located in Russia, making the effort interesting to be sure.

Human Rights Watch and activists fear Russia aims to build a system like the Chinese Great Firewall that could be used to apply strict censorship.

The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @12:44PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @12:44PM (#915687)

    > The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet."

    That's not how it works, mate.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Monday November 04 2019, @04:04PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday November 04 2019, @04:04PM (#915749)

    I seem to recall that Turkey had a "coincidental" several-day Internet outage during one of their unrests a few years ago, so yes, sometimes it does?

    Erdogan should write a book "How To Seize Power When Everybody Is Watching You And In Fact Some Have A Job Just To Prevent You From Doing Exactly That"

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    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:00PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:00PM (#915771)

      For those not getting, just because they said they won't do it doesn't mean it won't happen.

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 04 2019, @08:36PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Monday November 04 2019, @08:36PM (#915906)

        If you're the same AC as above, I don't really get what point you're trying to make. The bit in the summary

        The government however immediately laid such fears to rest when it "denied any intent of disconnecting Russian netizens from the Internet."

        was obviously sarcasm.

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        "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"