Russia disconnects from the Internet and achieves the impossible: making VPNs stop working in the country

by ALVARO39YT

19 comments

  4. “Putin isn’t so bad” — freedom loving MAGA idiot

  5. A bunch of companies like Netflix already “achieve the impossible” by banning VPN use.

  6. Over the last few days, Russia conducted trials by trying to sever internet access on a couple of regions as part of its plans of establishing “sovereign internet” something which will be controlled directly by the country itself. While testing, people around Dagestan Chechnya and Ingushetia were not be able to use both domestic services (Google, WhatsApp, YouTube and Telegram) and international ones too. VPNs, which are regularly used for the very purpose of bypassing internet restrictions seemed largely circumvent proof. Consider this a progressive step in Russia’s largest operation to date to fight against online censorship, limit the flow of information out of the country. The trials showed the prospect of an internet very heavily restricted, with many of the everyday uses for web service curtailed.

  8. How are they going to learn to hookup all those toilets they stole? And how will they do ransomware? It’s got to be their #1 supply of cash and crypto.

  9. Damn, this war is going to get a whole lot worse if we can’t speak with the russian people. They’re going to be fed the rhetoric that they’re the heroes

  10. This would require full restrictive control – over (not only wire-, but also) all possible (secret) wireless (EMF) communication… – in the long run. Otherwise people would create and use “guerilla”-network infrastructures. I guess.

  11. How are they going to be able to flood Western countries Internet with false information and fake accounts?

  13. It means they are going to stark cutting the undersea cables, war is coming.

  15. I’m guessing that the new Russian intranet will only apply to the centres/areas away from Moscow and St Petersburg. Thus allowing the ruling class full access but not the lower class. Imagine what would happen if the lower class were to become organised through social media?

  17. Once again keeping the “Poot” in Putin.
    This is what happens when you let Elon be your IT person.

  19. Could they pick up other countries Internet right on the borders?

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