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Russia To Disconnect From the Internet as Part of a Planned Test (zdnet.com)
Russian authorities and major internet providers are planning to disconnect the country from the internet as part of a planned experiment, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reports. From a report: The reason for the experiment is to gather insight and provide feedback and modifications to a proposed law introduced in the Russian Parliament in December 2018. A first draft of the law mandated that Russian internet providers should 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. In addition, Russian telecom firms would also have to install "technical means" to re-route all Russian internet traffic to exchange points approved or managed by Roskomnazor, Russia's telecom watchdog.
All your internet are disconnected!
Well, I guess it was fun whilst it lasted, before the politicians wrecked it.
(Russia disconnects from Internet for short test)
(Rest of world notices 50% drop in spam, bots, DDoS attacks)
(Russia goes to reconnect internet. Rest of world: "You know, maybe you should continue the test another 6 months or maybe indefinitely...?")
-Styopa
A whole bunch of malware/ransomware will stop working... The real question will be how much stuff in the USA will stop because of this?
Yes, sir, Mr. Putin sir.. This will be a very interesting test.
Personally, I figure, even Russia doesn't have enough control over it's internet connectivity to actually isolate themselves fully.
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Think of all the spam bots and election tampering bots being down for a day or so. All those muh Russia types should be cheering.
You've got that backwards. This is about protecting russian civilian infrastructure from retaliation. Their military operations will still be online. They aren't cutting themselves off from the internet to do anyone else any favors. The time-frame overlaps with Felonious DJT's threat to shutdown american cyber-defenses again. It should also be viewed in context of Russia's liquidating their holdings of American debt instruments, further insulating them from another form of possible retaliation.
I wonder how survivable an internet cut would really be in terms of domestic services..
How many things are mistakenly pointed at foreign DNS sources?
What assumptions do CDNs make about location and sources, DNS horizens etc that could prove faulty?
What complex filters and routing cost rules applied to BGP won't handle an event of that scale well?
What gremlins lurk in platforms like Azure and AWS that will behave badly if all routes to non-domestic hosts suddenly go away. That isnt a failure mode that gets a lot testing at a guess. Sometimes even a lot of redundancy does not roll as smoothly as we might imagine when failure modes we did not account for crop up. See Wells Fargo last week..
Honestly I applaud the Russians for undertaking the exercises. I'd *almost* say it would be a good thing for us to do here in the good old USA to do but I am not sure I want the government this administration or any other to have a working tested kill switch because I kinda be it would be misused ultimately.
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- Russia disconnects from Internet for short test.
- Rest of world gets hit with "mysterious" virus/worm that takes down critical financial/industrial/military infrastructure.
- Russia decides not to reconnect to protect their systems.
- Brave Russian programmers develop "cure" for virus/worm, offer to help rest of world for "small" price (just eastern Europe).
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
Jokes aside the Russian mafia elites along with their God Father Tsar Putin do everything to brainwash the poor Russian people into believing the country is the best in the world despite very low wages, underdeveloped industries, technological gap, huge brain drain, horrible health care (which is roughly 20-30 years behind the rest of the world), rampant corruption, poor ecological situation in many cities, comparatively low average life span, totally malfunctioning courts and police that mainly serve the richest.
The Internet is the only media that cannot fully control, so this could be a nice test of what else they can deprive the people of, so that the opposition has literally no means of revealing the truth about the inner workings of Russia.
You see, in many countries of the worlds there's mafia however as for Russia mafia has its own ... state.