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Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-his-e-toys-and-going-home dept.

New submitter GlowingCat writes: Russian President Vladimir Putin and several high-ranking officials will discuss the security of the Russian segment of the Internet at the meeting of the Russian Security Council next week. According to various reports, the officials will make a number of decisions about regulating the use of the Internet in Russia. This includes the ability to cut off the Russian Internet, known as Runet, from the outside world, in case of emergency.

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  1. The US already had this power for a long time by aristotle-dude · · Score: 3, Informative

    They control all of the root traffic across the internet so they could not only shut down the entire internet but close off the US portion of the internet anytime they wanted. In fact, I believe there was a similar story about Obama wanting to be sure that he could "shutdown" the internet in an emergency.

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    1. Re:The US already had this power for a long time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Except they don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server

      Not all root servers are in the US. Not all root servers are controlled by US companies/government agencies. And there is nothing preventing a cut of potion of the Internet/group of ISPs to route any or all of the these IPs to their own DNS servers.

  2. Re:"Emergency" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    US Communications Act of 1934
    “Upon proclamation by the President that there exists war or a threat of war, or a state of public peril or disaster or other national emergency, or in order to preserve the neutrality of the United States, the President, if he deems it necessary in the interest of national security or defense, may suspend or amend, for such time as he may see fit, the rules and regulations applicable to any or all stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations within the jurisdiction of the United States”

    Then, of course, there is Standard Operating Procedure 303

  3. Re:PLEASE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, in my experience, it's pretty much far too high.

    ~80% of brute force attacks against SSH and curious attempts at hitting my Postfix servers come from China.

    Russia's somewhere in the other 20%, of course, but not really standing clear above the US (fuck you, AWS), Georgia (the country, not the state), India, and various eastern European nations.