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Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet

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. Dibs! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I call dibs on their IP blocks!

  2. PLEASE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please disconnect .RU from the internet. Spam and hacking down %25 in one whack

    1. 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.

  3. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Internet disconnects YOU!

  4. OH NOES! by l0n3s0m3phr34k · · Score: 5, Funny

    But...how could we cope without all the botnet controllers, spam gateways, compromised .ru servers, and all the other wonderful users coming out of Russia? I agree that this could be very interesting if he did this; we could see the real impact of Russia's criminal internet community. The net might work better for awhile without .ru

    1. Re:OH NOES! by LifesABeach · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Would the Russian Mafia take this loss of income personally?

  5. oh noes by watcher-rv4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more car crash videos =/

  6. 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

  7. Re:In Soviet times by biptoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who would want to do Cosplay of a French Impressionist artist?

  8. Re:Sure why not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you're confusing VPN (virtual private network) with VMN (virtual magical network). The difference is one requires a connection to the internet outside russia to work, the other is magic.

  9. Re:Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's your retarted, idiot.

  10. eternal June by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From chernenko@kremvax.UUCP Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984
    Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP
    Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 4/1/84 (SU840401); site kremvax.UUCP
    Path: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
    From: chernenko@kremvax.UUCP
    Newsgroups: net.general,eunet.general,net.politics,eunet.politics
    Subject: USSR on Usenet
    Message-ID:
    Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 15:02:52 GMT
    Article-I.D.: kremvax.0001
    Posted: Sun Apr 1 15:02:52 1984
    Date-Received: Mon, 1-Apr-84 12:26:02 GMT
    Organization: MIIA, Moscow
    Lines: 41



    Well, today, 840401, this is at last the Socialist Union of Soviet Republics joining the Usenet network and saying hallo to everybody.

    One reason for us to join this network has been to have a means of having an open discussion forum with the American and European people and making clear to them our strong efforts towards attaining peaceful coexistence between the people of the Soviet Union and those of the United States and Europe.

    We have been informed that on this network many people have given strong anti-Russian opinions, but we believe they have been misguided by their leaders, especially the American administration, who is seeking for war and domination of the world. By well informing those people from our side we hope to have a possibility to make clear to them our intentions and ideas.

    Some of those in the Western world, who believe in the truth of what we say have made possible our entry on this network; to them we are very grateful. We hereby invite you to freely give your comments and opinions.

    Here are the data for our backbone site:

    Name: moskvax
    Organization: Moscow Institute for International Affairs
    Contact: K. Chernenko
    Phone: +7 095 840401
    Postal-Address: Moscow, Soviet Union
    Electronic-Address: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
    News: mcvax kremvax kgbvax
    Mail: mcvax kremvax kgbvax

    And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on this network. So:

    NA ZDAROVJE!

    -- K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR
    ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko