Russia's denying that it's about to cut itself off from the global internet, but it's acting ....
Russias denying that its about to cut itself off from the global internet, but its acting a lot like it
https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/russia-runet-disconnect-ukraine-dns-chernenko-letter/
Theres a Russian government document doing the rounds that has led some to suggest the country is preparing to disconnect from the global internet.
The letter appears to be an order from Andrei Chernenko, Russias deputy digital minister, demanding that Russian state-owned websites and online portals beef up their security by Friday this week.
It tells them to move their hosting to Russian services if they are currently using foreign hosting services, and to scrub their web pages of all JavaScript code that has been downloaded from foreign sources; JavaScript is one of the main web programming languages, and the document cites banners and visit counters as examples of the sort of page elements that might need to be removed.
Captain Zero
(6,713 posts)Getting off of it before they attack it?
PortTack
(32,605 posts)Has hacked into 300+ government sites, playing clips on state TV about whats going on in Ukraine. they hacked into the site that aims their satellites so they cant track Ukraine military movements, the department of defense site interrupting communications with troops.
No doubt they feel very vulnerable to other kinds of attacks. Even if they cut it off, it wont keep hackers from inside the country from messing with stuff