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Here is an article from Wired about Russia's new Internet surveillance program: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/all/ http://www.wire
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Here is an article from Wired about Russia's new Internet surveillance program: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/all/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/russia-surveillance/...
Signed into law by Vladimir Putin on July 28, the internet-filtering measure contains a single, innocuous-sounding paragraph that allows those compiling the Register to draw on court decisions relating to the banning of websites. The problem is, the courts have ruled to block more than child pornographers’ sites. The judges have also agreed to online bans on political extremists and opponents of the Putin regime.
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Most importantly, however, the new Roskomnadzor system introduces DPI (deep packet inspection) on a nationwide scale. Although DPI is not mentioned in the law, the Ministry of Communications — along with the biggest internet corporations active in Russia — concluded in August that the only way to implement the law was through deep packet inspection.