Thursday, October 24, 2019

Russia Will Test Its Internet Kill-Switch Starting Next Month

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Defense One: Russia Will Test Its Ability to Disconnect from the Internet

The nascent RuNet is meant to allow the country to survive an attack — and Putin to monitor and control the population.

Russia will test its internal RuNet network to see whether the country can function without the global internet, the Russian government announced Monday. The tests will begin after Nov. 1, recur at least annually, and possibly more frequently. It’s the latest move in a series of technical and policy steps intended to allow the Russian government to cut its citizens off from the rest of the world.

“On Monday, the government approved the provision on conducting exercises to ensure the stable, safe and holistic functioning of the Internet and public communications networks in the Russian Federation,” notes an article in D-Russia. (The original article is in Russian. We verified a translation with the help of a native Russian speaker.) “The exercises are held at the federal (in the territory of the Russian Federation) and regional (in the territory of one or more constituent entities of the Russian Federation) levels.”

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WNU Editor: WNU predicted this 10 years ago .... Kremlin May Tighten Up Internet Use In Russia (July 2, 2019). The Kremlin's attempts to censor the internet in the past few years have also failed .... The Kremlin Has Failed In Censoring The Internet (July 14, 2017). And as for a Kremlin internet kill-switch, this is also nothing new. WNU posted this story last year .... Russia Has A Kill Switch To Disconnect Itself From The World Wide Web (March 11, 2018).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation

The move is likely to open the attorney general to accusations that he is trying to deliver a political victory for President Trump.

Roger Smith said...



This move would seem to alienate the younger generations if activated.

Anonymous said...

Yuo can break up Rom,an rule into the time of Kings to the early Republic, late Republic, early Empire and late Empire. Likewise, historians have broken American political history into 3 or 4 periods.

A person could shrug off Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele and maybe some Russian help as the usual digging up dirt on a political opponent and the usual dirty tricks. That they brought in the Australians and Italians in a person could say it is not too bad.

But the you through Ukraine in there and them going at it for 3 years, It will be 3 years in about 2 weeks and they have nothing to show for it except downward pressure on the polls and and a return to power in the House at the expense of civility and peace.

The Obama administration and DNC have been sniffing around Trump like special needs blood hounds and finding nothing, since he announced in July 2015. they have been at this for 4 1/4 years and have nothing.

They have been so strenuous in their exertions and we know we have the usual corruption albeit in spades that it seems that they will go to any length (any length) to bring down their opponents because they are guilty to the max.

These Democrats will not stop and they are insanely corrupt. Time to smash pottery. The pieces are needed. Democrats have so much to hide.

Democrats have come so powerful and so bold they are like John Carpenter's vampire, Jan Valek. Valek's goal was to become a daywalker (Or Drake of Blade Trinity)

Joe Biden is like that. He bragged about firing a foreign prosecutor to protect his son in broad daylight in front of cameras and an audience. If he can do it and get away with it, we are in a new era and it won't be in a Democracy or a Republic.

Anonymous said...

Anon 12:29
You have not been reading the news, per Biden. What you say is not true. The prosecutor was corrupt and the US as well as the Europeans were insisting on the removal of that prosecutor. This all took place before Bidens son was on the Burisma board. Come out of your echo chambers chaps.

Anonymous said...

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