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"an escalation" is a bit of an understatement if you try to cut the fiber connecting Russia and China. they also share a border with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakh
by 123yawaworht456 2y ago
"an escalation" is a bit of an understatement if you try to cut the fiber connecting Russia and China. they also share a border with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
what the fuck are you going to do? do you people not understand how the Internet works? unless you isolate your network from all other networks, it is accessible from any other network.
- jiggawatts 2y agoThat’s fixable too. If the rest of the world drops all packets to or from Russian CIDR blocks, it doesn’t matter how many fibre links they still have lit up. Just a handful of public clouds and major CDNs dropping packets from Russian IPs would cut them off from almost all Internet services directly or indirectly. Good luck browsing web pages with cdnjs and the like just timing out for you! Russia can route to the rest of the Internet because they’re being allowed to in the same sense that they can sell oil and gas to Europe because Europeans are allowing them to.
- 123yawaworht456 2y ago> If the rest of the world drops all packets to or from Russian CIDR blocks yes, okay, fine, go convince China to do just that
- jiggawatts 2y agoDon’t need to convince everybody, just the majority.