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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: 2) by Arik on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:08AM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday November 05 2019, @05:08AM (#916136) Journal
    Yes and no.

    Look, obviously the historically aware of us realize that this is hardly the first time.

    But, the less historically aware viewpoint is not completely indefensible either. The war machine has waxed and waned a few times. It's not at all unreasonable for someone whose memory of world events doesn't really stretch back into the 90s to think this belligerence is 'new' when it's really only 'gone berserk' but is that hair always really worth splitting?

    At any rate, we used to go to great pains to avoid being seen as a bully, and now we no longer try. That's a change, and quite a recent one. I'd say we can date it to late 2001. You remember the day that time and space ripped apart and we were transported to bizzaro world right?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @11:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @11:12AM (#916762)

    I'd say we can date it to late 2001. You remember the day that time and space ripped apart and we were transported to bizzaro world right?

    You mean the day "Black Hawk Down" (based on real events in 1993) got released? Nah, I can't say I remember it.