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Russian Law Allowing Inspection and Internet Disconnection Takes Effect

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

RandomFactor writes:

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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• Re:competing totalitarianisms Re:competing totalitarianisms (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:57PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @07:57PM (#915872)

  Another conservative slowly catching on to khallow's game. I must say watching the brainwash detox is pretty enjoyable, reminds me of the Matrix "Welcome to the real world."

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• Re:competing totalitarianisms (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 05 2019, @01:55AM

  by khallow (3766) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @01:55AM (#916076) Journal

  Keep in mind that this whole thing started because someone claimed that the US suddenly changed by citing behavior that goes back more than two centuries. There's plenty more invasions where those came from. The US isn't magically behaving differently in recent decades. There's a lot of this historical myopia going around with people claiming that corporations are somehow greedier or people poorer just because of some narrative they're attached to.

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• Re:competing totalitarianisms (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:24AM

  by khallow (3766) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:24AM (#916080) Journal

  Another conservative slowly catching on to khallow's game.

  I think it'll be more interesting when you start catching on to my game.

  I must say watching the brainwash detox is pretty enjoyable, reminds me of the Matrix "Welcome to the real world."

  Let's suppose everything is as you suppose it is. Could you have applied said brainwash detox? We have here something beyond your capabilities by implicit acknowledgement, yet somehow not beyond mine.

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