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Back in 2021 Russia did several tests that disconnected from the international internet. They were prepared to do that and they didn’t suffer much financially
by wood_spirit 2y ago
Back in 2021 Russia did several tests that disconnected from the international internet. They were prepared to do that and they didn’t suffer much financially and nobody really noticed tbh https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-global-internet-tests-rbc-daily-2021-07-22/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-globa...
Just today I heard they had big outages. Haven’t seen much news about it but perhaps, as this article mentions speculation, it was an internal shutdown rather than external actors? https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/21/russia-blames-telegram-whatsapp-outage-on-cyberattack-as-experts-point-to-censorship-a86098 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/21/russia-blames-tele...
- alephnerd 2y agoThe 2021 test was pre-planned and they didn't specify when and the duration of the tests. Based on the outrage from the Telegram, VK (Russia's FB), and YouTube outage in 2024 caused by a similar test [0] the impact is quite high. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-reports-temporary-internet-outages-affecting-social-media-sites-2024-02-27/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-reports-temporary-...