Russia tests cutting itself off from the rest of the internet : technology

[+] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 129 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In the long term is will fuck over their ability to hack stuff. You're essentially ruining people's ability to develop talent at tech. Even if u want to train them in it as military, it would be new to them.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

Nah, they'd just do what NK does and pull out the "brightest" and train them in cyber

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

If everybody but the state is blocked, then any connections from Russia would be pretty fucking obviously the state. Honestly, that's the best thing that could happen, since it would make figuring out what they are doing easy as fuck. But I have no doubt they are smart enough to just send their teams to China or something like North Korea does.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 106 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wouldn’t it collapse their economy? Like how many Russians are digital sex workers selling content to the rest of the world? And doesn’t a shitton of money flow into Russia via ransomware

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago

Shh. Just smile and wave.

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 7 months ago

Wow, you are really brainwashed if you think the macro-economy of a country depend on these...

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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 73 points 7 months ago

Country Self-Defederation

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[-] AuroraB 71 points 7 months ago

As a queer person in a place currently under russian control, I find a lot of the comments in favour of the censorship problematic. Being gay in public is illegal here, so a lot of our queer people find communities on the Internet. Being cut off from those would be terrible.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Sorry you’ve been saddled with that, friend. I hope things get better in Russia (or Ukraine, Transnistria, or Georgia, think that covers all the places they occupy) in your lifetime

[-] AuroraB 11 points 7 months ago

I hope I'll escape before it collapses, otherwise life will be unnecessarily difficult for a decade or two

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[-] OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

Russian Federation? M-more, more like, like... Russian De-Federation, am I right?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 7 months ago

cs.rin.ru and rutracker ;_;

Also many people from the cracking scene y general.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Again.

They do this every few years.

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[-] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 29 points 7 months ago

Fuck. Please don't take down Sci hub... I know there are mirrors elsewhere, should I be worried?

I'm not even going to make the usual joke, by saying sarcastically that I don't use it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It's the biggest contributor to scientific progress in the last decade and I'm tired of pretending it's not

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 months ago

Yeah I'm sure going full north Korea and cutting of everyone below the government is gonna work well

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[+] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 20 points 7 months ago

Also, aren't telephones still working? Just call a friend/relative outside of the country to obtain information, or ask someone who has a friend/relative and ask for information on your behalf.

In Putin Russia friend calls you! And by friend I mean your neighbor, and by call you I mean call the police to arrest you because you have dared to ask for information. Straight to the gulag for you!

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

The smart ones all know how to use VPNs as well. They know what's up.

Crazy thing is they only need to control the masses who are mostly uneducated or don't care enough to figure out what's going on. Turns out that even the USA has a massive group of the latter type.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

No offense but this is incredibly short sighted and you're assuming the average person seeks out new information. We really don't and are more exposed to it in our daily lives of consumption. In 5, 10, 15 years it will increasingly become a problem being cut off from the outside world. Even now many believe the propaganda

[+] Rin@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

It will be a dark day for piracy...

Luckily, libgen and sci hub are not based there

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

tbf the internet is going to consist mostly of 3 things in the future:

propaganda
scientific information
funny cat videos

So I guess it's not really a surprise that this is happening.

[-] Lightsong@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I was gonna say you forgot porno but then

scientific information

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

DO IT

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 26 points 7 months ago

Their hacking teams will still be connected.

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[-] john89@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

No, let's not encourage this even as a joke.

All cutting Russia off from the rest of the internet will do is making them more radicalized and give even less opportunities for good ideas and good people to fight back.

That's why China does it. That's why Iran did it.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Good

Edit: actually not good. Disinformation agencies will still have access, so hexbear and .lm will remain. Only citizens will be punished and will be cut from non-prpaganda sources.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

Yup, it's the opposite of good. Russian citizens are getting screwed here.

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[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I hope rutracker will stay available :P

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago

The worst (to me, anyway) part is that a LOT of pirate stuff will disappear if the russian internet gets gated

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Gladly, no more fucking Putin Bots.

[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Their bots will access the net

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I'm sure they will still be around.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Are you really that naive?

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

Wait, so just like that, we're gonna lose access to lemmy.ml and hexbear? Oh no! Woe, woe unto us! How will we survive this?

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

They're really into cable cutting these days. Maybe we should help.

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[-] jwt@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago

[-] kjenney@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah - and I'm Dolly Parton. Everything that Russian press puts out is lies. There are only two reasons why Russia isn't an abandoned strip mall: Oil and the Internet.

[-] tupalos@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

That’s where all the best illegal movies come from!

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Xis puppet is learning another trick from its master

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Good fucking riddance. (No offense cool innocent Russian people.)

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

What makes you think the worst parts won’t still get through or be allowed through…like troll farms or hacking groups?

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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Lol peace suckas

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Noooo! My sports streams!

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