--- surfer@mauigateway.com wrote: From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> Anyone got any technical info on how Russia plans to execute a disconnection test of the internet? ------------------------------------ Got crickets, so now I have to respond to my own post on what I just found out about it. Is that like talking to yourself? :) https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775366588/russian-law-takes-effect-that-gives... "The "sovereign Internet law," as the government calls it, greatly enhances the Kremlin's control over the Web. It was passed earlier this year and allows Russia's government to cut off the Internet completely or from traffic outside Russia "in an emergency," as the BBC reported. But some of the applications could be more subtle, like the ability to block a single post." "The equipment would conduct what's known as "deep packet inspection," an advanced way to filter network traffic. "Regardless of what the government intends, some experts think it would be technically difficult for Russia to actually close its network if it wanted to, because of the sheer number of its international connections." "What I found was that there were hundreds of existing Internet exchange points in Russia, some of which have hundreds of participants...Many of them are international network providers, he says, so "basically it's challenging — if not impossible, I think — to completely isolate the Russian Internet." Belson says that the requirement for Internet service providers to install tracking software will very likely also be challenging in practice. He adds that it will be difficult to get hundreds of providers to deploy it and hard to coordinate that they're all filtering the same content. scott