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Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Oleg.salenko points out a ComputerWorld story with some bad news for Russia's wireless users, which starts out "Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed — not from muggers, necessarily, but from the country's recently formed regulatory super-agency, Rossvyazokhrankultura (short for the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service)... Rossvyazokhrankultura's interpretation of current law holds that users must register any electronics that use the frequency involved in Wi-Fi communications, said Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the agency's communications monitoring division, according to an English commentary provided by website The Other Russia."
It gets worse: "Aside from public hotspots, the registration requirement also applies to home networks, laptops, smart phones and Wi-Fi-enabled PDAs, Karpov reportedly said. Registration only permits use by the owner. Registration for personal devices is said to take 10 days, but registering a hotspot — including a home network — is more complicated, involving a set of documents and technological certifications akin to putting in a cell tower."
Cue the Soviet Russia jokes in 3,2,1...
Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed -- not from muggers,necessarily,
I'd recommend concealing them from the muggers too.
In Soviet Russia, WiFi registers you!
Looks like everyone who doesn't register their Nintendo DS is going to be a dangerous criminal! :O
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
There's electronic devices these days that don't have wifi built in?
Everything will be taken away from you.
"Service"
Those Ruskies. For such a cold and dour country they are one funny people...
Doesn't Bluetooth use the same frequency range as Wifi?
How long before some idiot tells us this is no different from what we have in the US?
I wonder how long it is before this could be used as a pretext for someone to be arrested and interrogated. Seems like a very easy way of putting a large amount of people into a position where they are "breaking" the allowing the government to "legally" do stuff that otherwise might be very nasty.
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Yes, but while I'm in Russia can I have sex with an underage prostitute?
That depends if she works for the government, if so, the Soviet Russia will have sex with you .
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Why would Russia want Wi-Fi to register YOU?
Pancakes. Oh I blew it.
time to get one.
This Rossvyazokhrankultura sounds a lot like the FCC. Although the FCC has allowed those frequencies to be open, the FCC is an American agency. Other countries don't have to follow their rules and regulations.
Almost fake story.
1. It's not required for end-user to register his wifi enabled devices.
2. Short range Wifi hotspots must be registered if you allow access to a third party (10 days and approx. 1000 rub for registration)
3. "a set of documents and technological certification" required for ISPs (if you sell wifi access for profit) and for wavelength not in a/b/g range
Way to rock that old news AGAIN!
Afraid that someone in Russia might use the internet for legitimate reasons instead of for crime.
To ensure your wifi router provides a "fair" "net-neutral" access. Hey, it's not *your* wifi router, we live in a society don't we ? Yeah yeah, flamebait, go ahead... but it sickens me no one sees how it's the same thing.
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Russia has always been top heavy in beaurocracy, even before Soviet times.
In Soviet Russia wifi-register.su
There's a problem when a word like Rossvyazokhrankultura is considered *short* for something. What happened to NAMBLA?
It's just plain sad.
Life is not for the lazy.
If you read comment on the mentioned article on Fontanka news agency site, you'll learn that this deputy director Vladimir Karpov just didn't properly understood the journalist' question. You have to register only powerful Wi-Fi transmitting stations, which is required in every country. It's not about personal or home equipment
Of course, if you ask those dunderheads from Putin's former KGB circle about something, you'll always get an answer, that you have to register and to get permission to everything including breathing (a Bush Jr. dearest dream).
Nobody really cares much about them in Russia though.I understand what you were trying to say.. but there are laws (even in Russia) against doing such things.. so your attempt fails.. and please get yourself neutered.. Thanks
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Russia has so much potential, but it always slips back into authoritarian ways. Must be the weather or something.
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Anybody want my mod points?
Presumably this was revealed to you by jebus?
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This is not true. Read: Translate the following site:http://www.rsoc.ru/main/about/858/887.shtml?id_news=628
I guess this is to be expected in a nation that once had an armed KGB agent assigned to every copy machine. And a former KGB leader who no longer holds a goverment office actually running the country (Putin).
Hey, would this not be a good example of WHY America should be different and allow anonymity on the Net. Of course Those Who Feel They Must Control Us (i.e. Rat Basturds) will never agreed.
The registration is required by commercial organisations only. Please stop the FUD.
-- With best regards. Really. Shaman007
Oh Noes! The pesky Russians have outdone us again! Quick, grab some more tax money and set up yet another government department to issue licenses for WIFI! No, I haven't a clue what it is either, just do it! And make those biometric things compulsory with registration while you are at it. And DNA.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
In Soviet Russia, Socialism controls YOU! er...wait. amidoinitright?
THL phish sticks
That site makes Time Cube look sane. Why is it all anti semitic websites are done by obvious raving lunatics?
;-)
Do you YHWH is maybe driving you mad to discredit your message
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Spam script malfunctioning, is.
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If you look at history you will see that Russia's potential is most effectively realized under authoritarian governments (Czars, Stalin, Brezhnev) and mostly wasted under "democratic" rulers (Gorbachev, Yeltsin.)
Russia was in one long decline under Brezhnev. And only a few of the Czars accomplished anything, the last one was a disaster.It's not the weather. It's russians. Given the choice they don't work. Unlike americans, russians are not chasing the golden calf, preferring instead to have good time. Nothing gets done this way.
Russians know that good times are only a temporary abnormality, so they might as well enjoy it as long as it lasts.Also, hard work is not the way ahead in society in Russia, all you accomplish is to make some gangster or bureaucrat (in Russia, they are mostly the same) happy. So either you become a gangster/bureaucrat, or you work as little as possible and spend what you have on vodka, so there is nothing to steal.
As for those who have somewhat exotic wireless hardware? I could only think of saying the Russian equivalent of "field day".
Something says that they won't look kindly on Lightweight AP+Controller setups.
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I double dare you to find a country on this globe where you cannot have sex with underage prostitutes.
Human nature is a disaster.
There is no need for registration for 100mW or less power devices in Russia. :-)
Preiod
Did the Russian Business Network have say in the decision?
How about this one?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
I don't know if they still do, but you used to have to do the same thing for mobile phones.
Used to be a real pain in the arse to get the authorisation, to the point where most people just left them behind.
That's a hoax, and has been known to be for a few days already... http://www.iphones.ru/iNotes/2922/
--AP
Dear demiurgie, You are ruining 'feel good about themselves' mood for our users, which they get by reading completely misinterpreted 'news' about other countries that makes them look at their own and say 'oh, at least it is not THAT bad here!'. Nobody cares whether what it is actually true or not. Regards, happy slashdotian...
It is not anti-semitic. Those are not even Jews. The Bible predict that. Jews are black. Jesus is black. Israel is illegitimate. Get over it.
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer . . . be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. . . . Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. (Revelation 2:9-10, 3:9).
You have to question the credibility of the information before making hasty judgements concerning the liberty in Russia. The Other Russia faction will not hesitate in making a big deal out of some rumors especially when it comes "potential threats to personal liberty" etc.
Although today Russia may appear somewhat authoritarian in a broad political sense, when it comes to the implementation of specific policies it is much more effective then many countries of the EU.
There is a programme of building a nation-wide wi-max network sponsored by the
federal government. I don't think it would really make sense for them to limit the wi- fi in that case.
When I was in Czech I noticed that most of the country's tele comm backbone is wireless and from apartment block to apartment block. I wonder just how similar this is in Moscow and other places where it is difficult to get a line plant. This could be a lot of work for administration people.
Why UNIX?
Here google translation of response from Rossvyazokhrankultura website: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsoc.ru%2Fmain%2Fabout%2F858%2F887.shtml%3Fid_news%3D628&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 In short: 1. You have to register only if you provide internet access for money. . 2. End-user Wi-fi equipment is excluded from list of telecommunication equipment required to register.
In Soviet Russia routing is for trains, wifi is used to describe "water in fuel indicator" and PDA means "public display of affection". All combined - I figured we must have got the whole idea wrong... this law was probably intended to prevent pissing in trains fuel tanks to display the affection of the Russian people for that mean of transportation.
The metter of such laws is to make EVERYONE a dangerous criminal. Just to motivate arrests >_.
Damn I thought Rossvyazokhrankultura was a good random string of characters....there goes my password.
Trying to install linux on my microwave, but keep getting a kernel panic...
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Seems like a fake story. I have seen the explanation on the web site of the mentioned agency Rossvyazokhrankultura: http://www.rsoc.ru/main/about/858/887.shtml?id_news=628
They say that someone misunderstood and generalized their response to a request from a journalist to clarify certain details of some particular situation.
and your source for this claim is...
Deus est fatalis
And I triple dare you to find a country where you can not hack up older prostitutes and put the pieces in plastic bags into the trunk (boot if your in the UK) of your rental car.
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