Posted on 12/24/2019 11:58:42 AM PST by NoLibZone
Russia successfully disconnected from the internet Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet.
The Russian Government has announced on Monday that it has successfully concluded the test on its RuNet intranet and the complete disconnection of the country from the Internet.
“The results of the exercises showed that, in general, both authorities and telecom operators are ready to effectively respond to emerging risks and threats, to ensure the stable functioning of both the Internet and the unified telecommunication network in the Russian Federation,” said the deputy head of the Ministry of Communications Alexey Sokolov.
The exercises aimed at testing and ensuring the integrity and the security of Russia’s Internet infrastructure, so-called RuNet.
The tests were conducted over the past two weeks, the simulation saw the involvement of the country agencies and Internet Service Providers.
The tests were carried out over multiple days, starting last week, and involved Russian government agencies, local internet service providers, and local Russian internet companies.
“The Russian Communications Ministry said on December 23 that the drills were aimed at ensuring the “integrity” of the Internet.” reads a post published by RadioLiberty.
“The purpose of the task is to ensure the reliable operation of the Internet in Russia in any conditions and under any circumstances,” said Aleksei Sokolov, deputy communications minister, in televised remarks on December 23 from the Monitoring and Cyber Threat Response Center.”
The Russian experts tested the RuNet in a scenario that sees it disconnected from the Internet where the Internet traffic was re-routed internally.
The Russian authorities did not reveal the type of tests conducted on its infrastructure, it is only known that the experts also simulated a cyber attack from a foreign state-actor that forced the country from disconnecting from the Internet.
“According to Sokolov, several scenarios were worked out during the exercises. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.” reported the Tass press agency. “Another was related to the security of cellular subscribers, including the protection of their personal data, the ability to intercept traffic, SMS and disclose information about their location.”
The test results will be presented to Russian President Putin next year.
“Also, together with the Ministry of Emergencies, we evaluated the level of interagency coordination during the repair and construction work on communication networks as a result of emergencies and natural disasters,” added Alexei Sokolov. Russia
Hope that can stop government Bureaucrats from silencing us.
I have much firsthand experience with the Russian Internet segment. It operates pretty much exactly like the American Internet segment (more efficiently in some ways). Lots of ignorant people assume that they have a China-like "Great Firewall", but this couldn't be further from the truth.
“Hope that can stop government Bureaucrats from silencing us.”
No a chance. The governments can control and silence those satellites.
And they do shut them down occasionally. We were in the middle of a project and wham....And we had to reboot from scratch.
Bkmk
The first sentence could have been the whole article.
Why? Control, isolation, both, what?
The point of the test is to keep the national segment functional in case the connection would be shut down from the outside.
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