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Russia Limits Operations of Foreign Communications Satellite Operators (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: This week, the Russian government has published a document outlining new rules that limit foreign communications satellite operators inside the country. The Russian government will require all foreign communications satellite companies to pass all incoming traffic through a ground gateway station. This means satellite operators won't be able to beam communications directly to customers without going through a ground station first. The Russian government cited an espionage threat of allowing foreign satellite companies to transmit data directly within the country's border, but critics of the Kremlin regime say the new requirement will enable Russian government agencies to intercept any incoming traffic. The new rules, set to enter into effect in six months, will also force all foreign communications satellite companies to obtain a permit from Russian authorities even before operating in the country. The Russian Defense Ministry, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and Federal Protective Service (FSO) will be in charge of reviewing applicants.
Trying to stop SpaceX. Good luck enforcing this broskis
What if you say throw up a bunch of cubesats and just started broadcasting. If you're not trying to get money seems like there's a big opportunity for a human rights/free information benefactor to jump in. Or..., Ya know the US government, I could see us provide Russia free rural internet because of this before covering our own country.
It would be interesting to see what they have to stop the signal.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
..the more grains of sand slip through your fingers.
I really wish someone would end Putin. He's a fucking troublemaker and the world would be better off without him -- and several other people I could name.
Russia getting tired of being blamed for everything.
Time to document everything going in and out of the country.
"Jews, Russian, Arab towel heads.... they don't care." - Kind of to the point, Trump caters to all of those - and doesn't seem to care or notice it's illegal, that he's literally about to be on trial for treason. It's like... hello? Wake up fool.
Maybe you don't have to praise Duterte for throwing people out of helicopters or say you believe North Korea's dynastic dictator-baby who literally has dissidents executed with flamethrowers and grenade launchers in public.
There should be a way for him to get his WWF jollies of being a pretend toughguy, his entire life basically, without praising mass murderering torturers and killers of American journalists as if the accusations are not credible, right?
World's dumbest traitor.
Foreign satellite companies fold up their tents, move on and cut 'em off.
It's guaranteed to work, just ask Trump.
Why is Snark Required?
The new smuggling will bring not drugs, liquor, or other banned physical things, but ungoverned data. There is already lots of this going on in the form of USB sticks with media from the West traded by people in countries with repressive governments, and use of internet proxies to receive data that is restricted by region where intellectual property is a tool of corporate totalitarianism (that means here in the US, folks). The new smuggling will be satellite ground stations providing direct, un-gatewayed access to global communications. Free speech is the crime here.
Bruce Perens.
Much of the reason for satellite communications is to provide communications to locations that are out of reach of ground stations. The InReach devices communicate directly with satellites to trigger a rescue - and communicate - in remote areas. Espionnage 140 characters at a time?
Bizarre.
Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.
"Espionnage 140 characters at a time?" - NO COLLUSION! You can't prove Mueller exists! FAKE INVESTIGATOR! America runs on DOUGHNUTS!
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The "Novitchok" BS is a psyop of the British intelligence services ordered by the same political party that orchestrated the Brexit. "Election meddling" in the US is a Democrat fantasy used as an excuse for an elections they lost against a joke of a candidate. Even if you accept all alleged "Russian hackery" at face value, it has had zero impact on the election. What ruined Shillary was her inability to run an effective campaign, her warm personality, her disdain for the "unwashed masses" and the Comey tricks a few days before the vote.
Look around at all the rooftop dishes in you neighborhood. Which one is beaming or more likely intermittently bursting in a sneaky and sophisticated way a high capacity data uplink? how do you think espionage works? Shortwavew and Morse code? Microfiche hidden in shoe heels? Obviously every terestial Internet data path is being sniffed. And you can bet rural personal uplinks and even dish TV logo-ed urban apartment balcony dishes are suspected of being covert alternatives to all the flash in personal electronics and body cavities as ways to get data back to China, albeit not with the much more useful near real-time capabilities of Earthline VPN feeding covert terrestrial uplink dishes. Why Russia is making a The new regulation law about down links is just theater. Putin Angle-ing for a Netflix board seat?
"Knowing everything doesn't help..."
This key statement is incorrect: "The Russian government will require all foreign communications satellite companies to pass all incoming traffic through a ground gateway station."
What the proposal actually says (http://government.ru/docs/35851/ paragraph 9):
"Any Russian telecom operator using a foreign satellite system must make the Russian segment of said system a part of the public network gateway. All traffic originating from terminals on the Russian territory, including terminals of foreign users that have no telecom contract with the Russian operator and are in a roaming mode on Russian territory, must pass through a gateway station of a Russian operator on the Russian territory".
That is, if you are not a client of a Russian operator or are roaming through them, this does not concern you at all.
As far as the law goes, I am not allowed to access Chinese satellites, no matter if its upload or download, within the US soil.
I have to obtain a license, from the American government, to access any Chinese satellites, or I will be treated as an enemy of the states.
... North Korea's dynastic dictator-baby who literally has dissidents executed with flamethrowers and grenade launchers in public ...
I'm no fan of North Korea but reports like that should be taken with a grain of salt. The story about Kim's Uncle being executed by a pack of man eating dogs turned out to be a hoax (well, actually, it originated as a satirical post on a Chinese social media network) and a number of other similar stories have turned out to be exaggerated. Like for example the story of general Hyon Yong-chol who was supposedly executed with a quad barrelled 23 mm anti-aircraft gun for “dozing off” at official events. This was later progressively downgraded until Hyon had supposedly been “purged”, but that he might still be alive. The North Korean regime is loathsome but believing every story about them you read in tabloids like the Daily Mail on a slow news day is not necessarily a good idea.
Many countries limit foreign operations since easier to control domestic companies.
Russia under Putin has slowly been drifting towards becoming another North Korea. Putin clearly understands that the legitimacy of the Russian government is under question and this is how he wants to control every piece of information flow, so that he and his circle will forever remain in power.
Not all Republicans love Putin. Those with common sense were probably always suspicious about autocrats like him.
Democrats have chosen Putin to become their bogeyman. Probably in the hopes of creating a bipartisan issue since Russia has been the punching bag for Republicans in the past. But they didn't think of the petty childish Republicans who hate Democrats even more than they hate Putin.
As far as the law goes, I am not allowed to access Chinese satellites, no matter if its upload or download, within the US soil.
Really? You can't use Beidou navigation then?
How did we give up our sovereign elections. Someone released some emails. If they didn't show that Hillary was a scum bag they would have had no impact. The truth hurts.
"won't be able"... Russian governmental morons mentally stuck back in 1970s seriously believe they can stop technical progress and information freedom and physically prevent satellites from communicating with terrestrial clients. Ha-ha, morons, good luck in your struggle with windmills! As for OneWeb and similar companies, it will be quite safe for them and better for everyone in the world to silently ignore russian and similar governments stupid and regressive laws and regulations and do what they believe is necessary to do. Information and communication freedom is the world's future, so let's place conservative and authoritarian old whoopers all over the world in their real place together!
I don't get it, why do Republicans love Putin so much that they suck his cock and give up our sovereign elections to him?
I don't get why democrats insist on believing FAKE NEWS and then degrading themselves with such crudeness when they are faced with political differences. It's like they want to wear jackboots and brown shirts again.
There's plenty of Russians who readily believe their government's lies as soon as they play the "us vs. them" card.
I remember the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum where many Russians in another online community cheered for the rational move of the UK to leave the Jew controlled EU fascists, with its homosexual and Muslim invasion agenda. Repeating the same bullshit they've just seen on their own national propaganda media.
And here I know for a fact that not every Russian is like that. I work with a couple of them. While they love their country, they resent their government. But they still don't speak up against the bullshit of their own peers. I guess that's their sense of Russian solidarity. It's again "us vs. them" and nobody has the right to criticize your side but yourself. If you still dare to, then prepare for tu quoque retorts.
It should be no surprise to you. Historically that is how all dictators have been handling things. Never claim responsibility for anything that's wrong in your country. Blame everything on others, namely the West.
There's plenty to hate the regime (and the man) for without resorting to hysterics. Every time I hear about how bad he is for killing family members I wonder what those family members would have been like if they were in charge of NK, and how long he would have lived if he didn't target them. But keeping their people in poverty, on the other hand, is inexcusable.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
There's plenty to hate the regime (and the man) for without resorting to hysterics. Every time I hear about how bad he is for killing family members I wonder what those family members would have been like if they were in charge of NK, and how long he would have lived if he didn't target them. But keeping their people in poverty, on the other hand, is inexcusable.
Yes it is, the N-Korean regime is pretty loathsome to say the least. However, after those stories about Iraqi troops tossing newborn babies on the floor in a Kuwaiti hospital and stealing their incubators turned out to be wildly exaggerated I'm going to take stories from a bunch of hysterical right-wing tabloids about N-Korean flamethrower firing squads and N-Korean executioners driving around in ZSU-23 tanks executing prisoners in sports stadiums front of tens of thousands of spectators with a grain of salt. You'd think they could at least produce a grainy cellphone video as proof. A lot of this stuff comes from sheets of toilet paper like the Daily Mail, the time they printed that article abut the killer dogs execution they actually had to stuff it full of copyrighted stock photos for lack of any shred of proof. If hundreds of thousands of soldiers are to be sent to fight another land war in Asia it seems the least to ask that this time they not be sent to die on the strength of outrageously transparent lies, I think the least we deserve these days are well crafted plausible lies. Anything else is an insult to our intelligence.
... history are bound to repeat it; those of us who do are bound to predict it. © CaptainDork.
Russia is in a place similar to Germany after WWI: They were once great and a superpower and a force to be reckoned with.
Like Germany then, Russia wants to rise from the ashes. One way to do that is to refurbish the country from within by participating in a global economy and working to lift sanctions from just about every kid on the block.
Another way is to go full isolationist, spending money it doesn't have on sell-esteem masturbatory strategies that the People don't want.
The choices Russia is making is boat-anchoring slow in growing their economy. While audacious, it's also inefficient.
There is no plan.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
remember that the invasion of Crimea started by installing a new internet cable and severing the one that went thru Europe.
This is exclusively to prevent well intentioned Ukrainian (and from other Russian controlled territories) ISPs from bypassing the new Russian-monitored cables.
Fake news ay? Good one buddy.
yeah, Orange Man Bad. Vodka Man Bad too! what a tyrannical dictator thug manie Putin is for ordering all satellite comms to be funneled through infrastructure under the direct control of the Russian military. it's not like Putin and all satellite comm providers inside Russia are under 24/7/265 attack from certain TLAs with $72 BILLION per year Black Budgets. it is certainly not the case that NSA is slurping up all "teleport facilities" (satellite traffic to/from ground stations) in the world for its own ingest. the name of such a program is certainly not TIDALSURGE.
https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/SatelliteTransportKnowledge2014-09-14_nsadocs_snowden_doc
and if you believe the NSA has dozens or even hundreds of "FORNSAT" sub-sub-sub-compartment-programs attacking everything in the supply chain of commercial satellite comms providers, then you're as nutty as Alex Jones rabidly frothing at the mouth about "crisis actors" staging Sandy Hook.
https://search.edwardsnowden.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=fornsat
and you would have to be a Certifiable Loon to think that an NSA program such as ELEGANTCHAOS and DARKQUEST, which consolidates VSAT traffic intercepted worldwide is a threat to Vodka Man Bad Pooty-poot. Putin is just paranoid and delusional to think the entire comms infrastructure of Russia is under attack by the NSA and even needs any defense!
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089532-Elegant-Chaos-collect-it-all-exploit-it-all.html
and you'd have to be a Terry Davis level of schizophrenic to believe Russia might be in any way threatened by NSA APPARITION, which is "installed at 27 Special Collections Services sites worldwide", including New Dehli, Ankara and Istanbul, and which targets the "backhaul" infrastructure of the ground stations for dozens of Sat Comm providers
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089509-APPARITION-becomes-a-reality-new-corporate-VSAT.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089505-Too-much-of-a-good-thing.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089493-MHS-Databases-as-of-14-Aug-2008.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089521-Menwith-satellite-classification-guide.html
just GTFO of here if you think Putin should rightfully worry at all about NSA programs like GHOSTHUNTER, which can geolocate anyone using Sat Comms with "near global coverage."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089498-Ghosthunter-future-capabilities-2008.html
Putin is obviously just hyping up imaginary threats against Russia in order to justify his stranglehold indefinitey grip on total power to the Russian people. if only the Russian people knew the Truth, that here at NSA, "We Come in Peace", and our spy satellite program NEMESIS is only surveying all microwave towers in China, in order to task them for attack and breach and collection, and then after China, NEMESIS is only going to further target Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. do you see the name "Russia" in there? nope. NSA's bulk hacking and interception of Sat Comm infrastructure on a global scale is clearly not a threat to Russia, because that list of targets only includes the majority of the world outside of Russia.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3089495-MHS-collection-assets.html
QED
Way too go! Keep showing us your greatness and your expanding influence in the world, Putin-stan! What an exciting, limitless future awaits the Russians. You can tell they're on a roll.
udachny is a sock puppet of roman_mir. the latter uses the former to try to convince more people that the foundational principles of his cult are righteous and sane. they both often post at -1 (and have their postings limited here on slashdot) because they have poor karma scores here as a result of repeated abusive behavior and their consistent religious proselytizing that is seldom on topic with the discussion thread. don't let him convince you that his doctrine would actually benefit you, or even result in him being less offensive.