Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
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#2The title does not match the article:
> The law will create an independent infrastructure for the Russian internet, or "Runet," which will essentially allow Russia to pull up its virtual drawbridges in case of attack.
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#3I wonder if this will be the future of the internet. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the EU tried doing the same.
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#4The title does not match the article: > The law will create an independent infrastructure for the Russian internet, or "Runet," which will essentially allow Russia to pull up its virtual drawbridges in case of attack.
The law will not create an independent infrastructure though. It will give power to Roskomnadzor to control the flow of internet traffic in Russia between ISPs.
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#5As someone who knows very little about the Internet backbone and networking in general, would this even be technically feasible to do?
We know that in certain countries there exist "single points" where a majority of internet traffic flows [0], but if those points get cut off, couldn't you reroute the traffic? Isn't that the point of decentralization in the first place?
And if it's technically feasible, would encryption tools like VPNs, DNS encryption or even Tor help in a situation like this?
[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2014...
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#6So the Russian Firewall?
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#7This is perfectly understandable, given US hostility to Russia.
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#8I wonder if this will be the future of the internet. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the EU tried doing the same.
Not the same at all.
EU is just settings rules for the internal EU market.
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#9Not quite an iron curtain, maybe silicon curtain?
Re: Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
#10As someone who knows very little about the Internet backbone and networking in general, would this even be technically feasible to do? We know that in certain countries there exist "single points" where a majority of internet traffic flows [0], but if those points get cut off, couldn't you reroute the traffic? Isn't that the point of decentralization in the first place? And if it's technically feasible, would encrypt…
From what I can read in that article, the law will simply mandate that Roskomnadzor gets to control the internet access points, and it's also hinted that services will be required to host their data in Russia, to some extent. That would give them the ability to shut down most of the Internet traffic to and from the rest of the world, while still allowing important services to run without disruptions.
That's the theory anyway. In practice, I assume Russian web services are just as dependant on third-party providers as the rest of us are.