Having a bad day? Be thankful you don't work at a Russian ISP: Kremlin signs off Pootynet restrictions

Re: Go, Putain, go

Not sure if that was a typo or a bit of French humour...

Re: Go, Putain, go

I too can't afford new shoes, and live in a country which announced Glorious New Peoples' Austerity simultaneously with spending $15 billion on Glorious Olympic Games for 2012, for which the caravan has now moved on leaving concrete detritus and the usual litter.

Your point is ?

At least the Soviets Federationists managed to make a $2 billion profit on their tomfoolery; something far beyond the wit of our gibbering cabinets.

@JLV - Re: Go, Putain, go

Like US don't have taps at all major interconnection points and transatlantic cables.

Let's not be silly, shall we ?

Re: Go, Putain, go

re. shoes, there was some soul-searching in Russian radio on this, and naturally, some callers pointed out that they don't make them boots like they used to (Chinese junk, cheap but nasty, etc.), and that the boots won't last you one winter in Moscow or Petersburg, due to the salt and chemicals used to keep the roads and pavements less slippery (I wonder what they used before though, perhaps nonthing). My point? Well, as above, they wear their shoes/boots much faster. On a similar note (times a-changing), they discovered (shock! horror!) that the youngsters never keen to join the Russian/Soviet/Russian army now expect not only to be treated like humans, instead of being treated like, well, Russian conscripts, but demand access to such luxuries as mobile internet and computer games, etc. No wonder Putin wants to stop Western corruption via internet (CIA plot, no doubt) seeping into the healthy Russian minds...

Re: Go, Putain, go

here's a slightly more informative piece (on the project, not on the shoes)

www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/c2b/c2b-log/russias-plans-for-a-national-internet/

(although the analysis, given the title of the website doesn't inspire confidence in their impartiality, new america. Whose side are they on? ;)

Possibly, but with the US putting on econic sanctions on everyone who looks at them funnily, alo g with the russophobia that's being fostered by the US and its mainstream media, it's not surprising that they want at least their internal digital services to continue to work if someone decides they need to be cut off from the internet.

Pictures of Putin giving Donald a cheeky finger while a smiling bear in a clown outfit watches.

@Evil Auditor - May I remind you

that a lot of high profile political leaders were named in those Panama papers but not the Russian president. Clue for you, just watch China doing the same. It's just national security matter with the added bonus of increasing visibility and control on their population.

Re: What about satellite?

Satellite Internet is prohibitively expensive for most mere mortals, so Putin is not concerned about it at all. What he must be concerned about is WiFi/Cellular coverage at the borders of the country but these radio signals can be relatively easily suppressed and people trying to relay the Internet can be physically suppressed even easier.

Putin just cannot sleep well until Russia becomes the next North Korea.

Re: What about satellite?

Satellite isn't anyone's default connection. Those using satellite have made an active choice to do so. They're outside the scope of the Russian Internet that they're seeking protect from the risk of hostile action from Trump or a successor.

As for the evil surveillance state side of the action (both that and the legitimate defensive explanation are entirely plausible and likely), those using satellite are surely too few to worry about - for now, at least. And probably too techie to suppress. Like those who can use commandline PGP - rather than an app that can be backdoored or banned - to get around Oz's spying law. Or those who can route around Blighty's great firewall (aka IWF).

Re: What about satellite?

Trying to control information to that degree basically requires keeping your population as prisoners like in North Korea. Is Putin really prepared to go that far?

Collapse of USSR is fairly recent, so it is not that long ago when travel out of USSR was tightly controlled. Hence I wouldn't rule it out (if you can rule anything out with Putin).

@Cxwf - You don't deserve the down voting

What government in this world would pass on such opportunity to spy on its citizens ?

Would someone remind us why Snowden is the most wanted person on Earth ?

Re: One step from

They can then link arms in solidarity with China's GFW like a hands across the universe

Up until recently, China and Russia (and before that the Soviet Union) were very definately best buddies.

Wrong sort of communism on the line :-)

(That and being geographically next to each other as rivals with a long land border fired paranoia on both sides of the line..)

I suspect now all that binds them together is having the same set of enemies. At some point they'll revert to realising that the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend..