3 ms·

Another option is to make Internet itself more censorship resistant. Remember, cable is actually way more physically resistant to adversary interference in com

Another option is to make Internet itself more censorship resistant. Remember, cable is actually way more physically resistant to adversary interference in comparison to radio, satellite, or microwave towers. You need to destroy cables, and equipment physically, unlike anything of above, and you can repair it quickly using omnipresent, off the shelf hardware. In other words, you can expend a great amount of resources sending goons to wreck thousands of DCs, and exchanges to little effect. Physically denying regime's access to network exchanges will work. Same with cell networks. Easy to jam locally, but even a big city is practically impossible without massive expense to physically take down cell towers. Idlib in Syria is a good example how a cutoff segment of cell network managed to stay online for a remarkable amount of time under military aggression.

lostlogin 6y ago
> Physically denying regime's access to network exchanges will work. I’m not sure this works with Russia. The police there don’t mess around, are very violent and have been practicing their tactics for at least a century.
- baybal2 6y ago
  I myself is an unfortunate owner of a russian passport, and my spend childhood there. > The police there don’t mess around, are very violent Of course! That's rather obvious. You will not be able to resist any much bigger force than just police with puny handguns you can buy on the black market, but that's the point! Have that militarised special police busy! Have them expending resources, have them running armour around cities at a great material cost. Not to say disruption of everyday life, and seeing armour on the streets will contribute greatly to galvanising the population, and demoralising the ordinary police. Simple math tells that 1 million men strong police force will quickly exhaust itself being either split on 100+ major cities, or being constantly relocated from one city, to another. The ratio of military age men, to police force in Russia is 21 to 1, and you very much expect that a bigger portion of population has to be counted, and not all mancount of police, and 3 letter services account for military like units.

lostlogin 6y ago

> Physically denying regime's access to network exchanges will work. I’m not sure this works with Russia. The police there don’t mess around, are very violent and have been practicing their tactics for at least a century.

baybal2 6y ago
I myself is an unfortunate owner of a russian passport, and my spend childhood there. > The police there don’t mess around, are very violent Of course! That's rather obvious. You will not be able to resist any much bigger force than just police with puny handguns you can buy on the black market, but that's the point! Have that militarised special police busy! Have them expending resources, have them running armour around cities at a great material cost. Not to say disruption of everyday life, and seeing armour on the streets will contribute greatly to galvanising the population, and demoralising the ordinary police. Simple math tells that 1 million men strong police force will quickly exhaust itself being either split on 100+ major cities, or being constantly relocated from one city, to another. The ratio of military age men, to police force in Russia is 21 to 1, and you very much expect that a bigger portion of population has to be counted, and not all mancount of police, and 3 letter services account for military like units.