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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."
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday November 04 2019, @05:53PM (6 children)
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday November 04 2019, @08:09PM (5 children)
I meant that when a government agency with basically no oversight can just ignore the one body that can give them orders, what the fuck is the point of anything anymore
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 04 2019, @10:36PM (1 child)
Yes, indeed. What is to be done?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 06 2019, @10:59AM
Nothing. As in actively nothing. As in "a national strike for a couple of days".
Will it happen in US? Not a chance with each half of the population with the teeth in the neck of the other half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday November 04 2019, @11:15PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:08PM (1 child)
You asked what it had to do with your reply and I told you, Captain Thicko.
You really can't understand how my point was relevant?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday November 05 2019, @07:13PM