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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 7:42 am
Nobody needs isolation!
Konstantin Anisimov | 02/13/2019
When people talk about isolating the RuNet, everyone immediately remembers China. Stories about the Great Firewall of China are often heard. The Iron Curtain of the 21st century. I will say right away that from a technical point of view, the idea of disconnecting Russia from the World Wide Web seems unlikely to me. It is not possible to do this in any working form. Remember the great battle between Roskomnadzor and Telegram. "You run away, I'll catch up." Everything is like in the wonderful film "Beware of the Car." The result is the status quo. Each such battle raises the technical equipment of the opposing sides and the technical knowledge of ordinary users to a new level. After that, VPN, proxy and other strange words enter into common use.
If we talk about of possible isolation of RuNet, then we can talk about filtering Internet traffic. Let's imagine that somewhere in the West officials decide to spend billions of dollars to implement equipment estonia mobile database Russians' access to the "Western" Internet. Then, indeed, there is a threat of inoperability of our banking system, international services and services. This can happen if, for example, Internet traffic from Russian IP addresses is marked as hostile or malicious and is blocked by foreign equipment. Until now, there have been no such examples in any country.
Nevertheless, ideas of protecting national interests are increasingly being voiced, including by creating some kind of “autonomous Internet circuit.” This is in case someone suddenly decides to pull some kind of “global Internet switch.”
Let's assume that our government will decide to implement its idea of an autonomous Internet according to the most severe scenario. What will this mean for business and the lives of ordinary Russians? I dare to assume that it is unlikely that anything will change significantly. Why?
Firstly, the Roskomnadzor-Telegram training showed vulnerabilities, and businesses whose infrastructure was tied to external resources drew the appropriate conclusions and either transferred their projects to infrastructure in Russia, or, at a minimum, made a “Plan B”, which implies the rapid deployment of their IT systems in Russia. An interesting example was given by the global communications company Zoom - it will soon open a communications point in Russia, starting with St. Petersburg. This will greatly improve the quality of the service itself in Russia due to reduced latency. But in addition to this, “there are also large Zoom customers in Russia. And for large customers, it is important that the product works with any steering wheel movements.”
Konstantin Anisimov | 02/13/2019
When people talk about isolating the RuNet, everyone immediately remembers China. Stories about the Great Firewall of China are often heard. The Iron Curtain of the 21st century. I will say right away that from a technical point of view, the idea of disconnecting Russia from the World Wide Web seems unlikely to me. It is not possible to do this in any working form. Remember the great battle between Roskomnadzor and Telegram. "You run away, I'll catch up." Everything is like in the wonderful film "Beware of the Car." The result is the status quo. Each such battle raises the technical equipment of the opposing sides and the technical knowledge of ordinary users to a new level. After that, VPN, proxy and other strange words enter into common use.
If we talk about of possible isolation of RuNet, then we can talk about filtering Internet traffic. Let's imagine that somewhere in the West officials decide to spend billions of dollars to implement equipment estonia mobile database Russians' access to the "Western" Internet. Then, indeed, there is a threat of inoperability of our banking system, international services and services. This can happen if, for example, Internet traffic from Russian IP addresses is marked as hostile or malicious and is blocked by foreign equipment. Until now, there have been no such examples in any country.
Nevertheless, ideas of protecting national interests are increasingly being voiced, including by creating some kind of “autonomous Internet circuit.” This is in case someone suddenly decides to pull some kind of “global Internet switch.”
Let's assume that our government will decide to implement its idea of an autonomous Internet according to the most severe scenario. What will this mean for business and the lives of ordinary Russians? I dare to assume that it is unlikely that anything will change significantly. Why?
Firstly, the Roskomnadzor-Telegram training showed vulnerabilities, and businesses whose infrastructure was tied to external resources drew the appropriate conclusions and either transferred their projects to infrastructure in Russia, or, at a minimum, made a “Plan B”, which implies the rapid deployment of their IT systems in Russia. An interesting example was given by the global communications company Zoom - it will soon open a communications point in Russia, starting with St. Petersburg. This will greatly improve the quality of the service itself in Russia due to reduced latency. But in addition to this, “there are also large Zoom customers in Russia. And for large customers, it is important that the product works with any steering wheel movements.”