Posted on 02/12/2019 2:30:18 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia is going to temporarily unplug from the internet as part of what the country is calling a planned experiment.
According to a report from Russian news site RBC, the planned disconnection is intended to examine whether the country run by Vladimir Putin is prepared for a draft law that mandates a "sovereign" internet.
ZDNet reports that a draft of the law required that Russian internet service providers must ensure the independence of the Russian internet space (Runet) in the case of foreign aggression to disconnect the country from the rest of the internet.
The legislation's goal is to prevent any aggression from the U.S., which has listed Russia as a major source of cybersecurity attacks...some observers told the British publication that they believe the move is another step toward duplicating China's Great Firewall – which restricts access of that country's internet users to content approved by the communist government – in Russia.
Russia's telecom watchdog, Roskomnazor, will inspect traffic to block prohibited content and make sure that traffic between Russian internet users is not re-routed to servers outside of the country, according to ZDNet.
In 2017, Russian officials said they wanted to route 95 percent of all internet traffic locally by 2020, ZDNet added.
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You know better than that. They are just going to free up bandwidth for all the other countries that hit us. lol
I get a lot more spam hits from other countries than I do from Russia.
Being plugged into a network that NeoCons can unplug you from without notice is stupid.
Russia is playing it smart.
Don’t look now, but Africa is already pretty much unplugged.
Yep - it’s what keeps out Trump concern trolls going - someone has to fear and fret and they took the reins on that so rational people can do other thongs.
What?
I haven’t been getting very many marriage proposals from beautiful white models in Ghana lately.
Has something changed?
LOL - one can always have hope!
For the record, me too!
Have you ever chased some of those back to the physical origin? Sometimes it takes a few days but I have found some crazy stuff like from warehouses in china and military bunkers in the remote desert in Iraq. lol
Seriously? I’ve only played with the WHOIS . Teach me how? Sounds like fun!
It’s a combination of tools and some deep digging. Whois or variants, Email address source if they returned a conformation.
I’ll PM you... :)
Great. Look Forward to learning more. Thanks!
No way. He owes me 100 million first.
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