Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet
Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet
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Wouldn’t it collapse their economy? Like how many Russians are digital sex workers selling content to the rest of the world? And doesn’t a shitton of money flow into Russia via ransomware
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Shh. Just smile and wave.
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You know, I somehow very highly doubt the Kremlin cares much about how sex workers might be affected.
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Are there even any payment processors they can use for that? I remember it being an issue when the sanctions hit.
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Country Self-Defederation
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Defederation to go with their defenestration.
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As a queer person in a place currently under russian control, I find a lot of the comments in favour of the censorship problematic. Being gay in public is illegal here, so a lot of our queer people find communities on the Internet. Being cut off from those would be terrible.
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Sorry you’ve been saddled with that, friend. I hope things get better in Russia (or Ukraine, Transnistria, or Georgia, think that covers all the places they occupy) in your lifetime
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I hope I'll escape before it collapses, otherwise life will be unnecessarily difficult for a decade or two
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Plus, there are things in Russia that I want. Like Starsector
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I got your 6.
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Oh I bet you do... 😉
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Fuck off
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Russian Federation? M-more, more like, like... Russian De-Federation, am I right?
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cs.rin.ru and rutracker ;_;
Also many people from the cracking scene y general.
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- Again.
They do this every few years.
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It is like those "drills" with fighter jets flying close by. Everyone does it occasionally to test reaction time. And every time it is a breaking world news.
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Nah, it doesn't always make the news. I know of one time where they flew right over my house and there was no mention of it anywhere, so I tell this story every time anyone mentions those "routine" fly overs.
It was New Year 2019-2020 about noon.
The MIG came in from the Kattegat coast and roared through a fjord well below reasonable eardeafening altitude, which made me go outside to see what the fuck was going on. It got intercepted by one of our own F-16s and they did a few rounds of dog chasing right above my head before it flew like hell back towards Russia. The fucker must've dodged the Swedes on the way here.
Way out of line. It's completely reckless to put some kid into a machine like that and have them fly this close to residential areas. Who knows what would've happened and how many people would've been hurt if the idiot had hit a tall antenna or lost control from the g-force or whatever. They were flying low, fast and swirling like moth being chased by a flyswatter.
The Russians are reckless assholes even in peace.
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Fuck. Please don't take down Sci hub... I know there are mirrors elsewhere, should I be worried?
I'm not even going to make the usual joke, by saying sarcastically that I don't use it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's the biggest contributor to scientific progress in the last decade and I'm tired of pretending it's not
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Yeah I'm sure going full north Korea and cutting of everyone below the government is gonna work well
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Red Star OS when?
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Also, aren't telephones still working? Just call a friend/relative outside of the country to obtain information, or ask someone who has a friend/relative and ask for information on your behalf.
In Putin Russia friend calls you! And by friend I mean your neighbor, and by call you I mean call the police to arrest you because you have dared to ask for information. Straight to the gulag for you!
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The smart ones all know how to use VPNs as well. They know what's up.
Crazy thing is they only need to control the masses who are mostly uneducated or don't care enough to figure out what's going on. Turns out that even the USA has a massive group of the latter type.
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No offense but this is incredibly short sighted and you're assuming the average person seeks out new information. We really don't and are more exposed to it in our daily lives of consumption. In 5, 10, 15 years it will increasingly become a problem being cut off from the outside world. Even now many believe the propaganda
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tbf the internet is going to consist mostly of 3 things in the future:
- propaganda
- scientific information
- funny cat videos
So I guess it's not really a surprise that this is happening.
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Good
Edit: actually not good. Disinformation agencies will still have access, so hexbear and .lm will remain. Only citizens will be punished and will be cut from non-prpaganda sources.
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Yup, it's the opposite of good. Russian citizens are getting screwed here.
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The majority of the people in those instances are probably not working with the state, they're just what the Soviet Union used to refer to as "useful idiots". So they would indeed be blocked if Hexbear and lemmy.ml are hosted in Russia.
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Putin is openly anti-communist.
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Agree. If the so called communists of Lemmy understood that we would see much less support for the genocide of Ukrainians.
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DO IT
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Their hacking teams will still be connected.
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would make it a lot easier to identify malicious traffic - all of it :)
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No, let's not encourage this even as a joke.
All cutting Russia off from the rest of the internet will do is making them more radicalized and give even less opportunities for good ideas and good people to fight back.
That's why China does it. That's why Iran did it.
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It will be a dark day for piracy...
Luckily, libgen and sci hub are not based there
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I hope rutracker will stay available :P
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Gladly, no more fucking Putin Bots.
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Their bots will access the net
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I'm sure they will still be around.
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Are you really that naive?
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You know ips can be filtered to still have access right?
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To all the people downvoting this, look at this comment https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/15369807
@1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca @capital@lemmy.world @disconnectikacio@lemmy.world @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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You make a lot of assumptions about who down voted what.
Here is a hint. You are the first person I down voted in this thread.
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If that were true, it should be easy to block all the crypto attacks coming from Russia, right?
Even now, hospitals (for example) could just whitelist their own country IPs, block Russian ones, and bam! No more Russian crypto ransom attacks right?
Wait, why haven’t they just done that already? Could it be that IT teams are already taking this precaution but attackers, especially ones with state funding, can route their traffic through IPs not attributed to Russia?
Again, are you that naive?
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They're really into cable cutting these days. Maybe we should help.
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Imagine how fast the Russian IT grinds to a halt without SO
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Wait, so just like that, we're gonna lose access to lemmy.ml and hexbear? Oh no! Woe, woe unto us! How will we survive this?
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Good fucking riddance. (No offense cool innocent Russian people.)
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What makes you think the worst parts won’t still get through or be allowed through…like troll farms or hacking groups?
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Yeah - and I'm Dolly Parton. Everything that Russian press puts out is lies. There are only two reasons why Russia isn't an abandoned strip mall: Oil and the Internet.
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Lol peace suckas
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That’s where all the best illegal movies come from!
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Xis puppet is learning another trick from its master
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Noooo! My sports streams!
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This is a sad day
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Someone will be smuggling microfiche behind the iron curtain...wait wrong century.
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Then who will post on reddit?
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Oh man old-games.ru will be gone from access
So much rare untouched abandonware there
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Be good practice for when the rest of the world cuts them off for real.
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I have a suspicion that they have a virus that they want to spread and protect themselves from
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Could they just stay that way?
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In the long term is will fuck over their ability to hack stuff. You're essentially ruining people's ability to develop talent at tech. Even if u want to train them in it as military, it would be new to them.
Nah, they'd just do what NK does and pull out the "brightest" and train them in cyber
If everybody but the state is blocked, then any connections from Russia would be pretty fucking obviously the state. Honestly, that's the best thing that could happen, since it would make figuring out what they are doing easy as fuck. But I have no doubt they are smart enough to just send their teams to China or something like North Korea does.