Russia experiments with Internet isolation. What’s going on? The Wachowskis/Warner Bros., 1999 Since 2019, cities across Russia have been testing ways to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet (known colloquially as “Runet”) from the wider global network. Most tests go unnoticed by users, and are only announced post-factum. We explain how Russia is preparing for its own sovereign Internet and how the new system differs from the “Great Firewall” of China.
What’s being tested? Legion Media
From June 15 to July 15, 2021, Russia held a series of multi-day exercises to test the robust operation of Runet, reported the newspaper, RBC, citing the infosec working group of the autonomous non-profit organization, Digital Economy.
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Russia’s surveillance state still doesn’t match China. But Putin is racing to catch up. Robyn Dixon © Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images A woman walks past a surveillance camera and a mosaic depicting the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at a Metro station in Moscow on March 10. MOSCOW Russian authorities are ramping up the use of facial recognition technology to track opposition protesters to their homes and arrest them a powerful new Kremlin tool to crush opposition. But when state security agents are suspected of murders or attacks on journalists and opposition activists, surveillance cameras have at times been switched off or “malfunction.”
By ROBYN DIXON | The Washington Post | Published: April 17, 2021 MOSCOW Russian authorities are ramping up the use of facial recognition technology to track opposition protesters to their homes and arrest them – a powerful new Kremlin tool to crush opposition. But when state security agents are suspected of murders or attacks on journalists and opposition activists, surveillance cameras have at times been switched off or malfunction. And the system is so leaky that surveillance data on individuals can be bought for a small sum on Russia s notorious black market in data, along with all kinds of other personal information. There is even a name for the clandestine cyber-bazaar: probiv.