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I think the main purpose of this is to force local users to migrate to local services. Right now a lot of services that used by citizens are hosted outside of R

I think the main purpose of this is to force local users to migrate to local services. Right now a lot of services that used by citizens are hosted outside of Russia and cannot be influenced or managed by government. They afraid disconnection as sanction. They have a law that companies should store personal data in local data centers. But most of the foreign companies don't obey it, so that's the lever. I don't think that disconnection could protect from cyber war, viruses and attacks could be easily run from inside.

benj111 8y ago
The main purpose is create their own 'great firewall' (electronic curtain???) Edit: The BBC article has a bit more detail. "The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded." Why else would you need to discard outbound traffic? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426?intlink_from_ur...
- varelaz 8y ago
  Constant firewall cost is too high. It's much easier just to abrupt external network several times to show that foreign services are not reliable. As for me, rather government that does this is not reliable, but that's unlikely that protests will be strong enough. Yes it will be a "test", but a lot of small companies will be worried and will need to find a way to keep their operations up.
- reacweb 8y ago
  Every country in the world has become dependent on the Internet. If ever, on the impulse of a poorly-minded president, the United States decides to sanction a country by cutting off its access to the Internet, this country would find itself in a very unpleasant situation. The United States has already demonstrated its tendency to raise sanctions, its tendency to elect unreasonable presidents and its tendency to threaten Russia. I am not Russian, but I think it is quite wise for Russia to be prepared for this kind of eventuality. Si vis pacem para bellum.
  - benj111 8y ago
    For the US that would become self defeating. Because at that point other countries would start looking around for a solution that doesn't involve the US. See for example, the EU setting up a system to continue trade with Iran. You are probably right that Russia should be worried on some level. But so far Russia seems to be the main driving force behind cyber warfare at the moment so I'm not really sure they can complain.

benj111 8y ago

The main purpose is create their own 'great firewall' (electronic curtain???) Edit: The BBC article has a bit more detail. "The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but any destined for foreign computers is discarded." Why else would you need to discard outbound traffic? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426?intlink_from_ur...

varelaz 8y ago
Constant firewall cost is too high. It's much easier just to abrupt external network several times to show that foreign services are not reliable. As for me, rather government that does this is not reliable, but that's unlikely that protests will be strong enough. Yes it will be a "test", but a lot of small companies will be worried and will need to find a way to keep their operations up.
reacweb 8y ago
Every country in the world has become dependent on the Internet. If ever, on the impulse of a poorly-minded president, the United States decides to sanction a country by cutting off its access to the Internet, this country would find itself in a very unpleasant situation. The United States has already demonstrated its tendency to raise sanctions, its tendency to elect unreasonable presidents and its tendency to threaten Russia. I am not Russian, but I think it is quite wise for Russia to be prepared for this kind of eventuality. Si vis pacem para bellum.
- benj111 8y ago
  For the US that would become self defeating. Because at that point other countries would start looking around for a solution that doesn't involve the US. See for example, the EU setting up a system to continue trade with Iran. You are probably right that Russia should be worried on some level. But so far Russia seems to be the main driving force behind cyber warfare at the moment so I'm not really sure they can complain.