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Re: Russian government’s disconnection test
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 19:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, John Von Essen wrote:
The thing that I always wonder about is the ability for citizens to bypass the restriction via satellite internet nowadays. I guess they need a law to make that illegal too, if found purchasing satellite internet gear, off to the gulag!
Essentially all international telecommunications treaties, including for satellites, were originally written during the cold war. Those treaties all have ways for sovereign nations to 'revoke' permission to operate in their jurisdiction, again including satellite downlinks.
While there will be some leakage, just like during the cold war, my guess -- if a sovereign nation invokes those treaty terms it would cut-off around 95% to 97% of ordinary public communications from/to that territory.
There might be some 'rogue' links, and military/government links that aren't cut-off.
Since the Bill Clinton Administration, the U.S. has had an official government policy *NOT* to invoke those treaty terms. But doesn't prevent other countries from invoking them.
On the other hand, if Russia disconnected from the outside world, how would all their trolls and bot farms get any work done?
Already out-sourced to bulletproof hosting providers and so on, around the world ... again much like during the cold war.
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- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Constantine A. Murenin (Nov 01)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Fred Baker (Nov 01)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Sean Donelan (Nov 04)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Nick Hilliard (Nov 04)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Fred Baker (Nov 01)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Töma Gavrichenkov (Nov 01)
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- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Valdis Klētnieks (Nov 04)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test Töma Gavrichenkov (Nov 04)
- Re: Russian government’s disconnection test John Von Essen (Nov 01)