https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47198426
Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences.
The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and
organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed
internationally.
A draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its parliament last year.
The test is expected to happen before 1 April but no exact date has been set.
Major disruption
The draft law, called the Digital Economy National Program, requires
Russia’s ISPs to ensure that it can operate in the event of foreign
powers acting to isolate the country online.
Nato and its allies have threatened to sanction Russia over the
cyber-attacks and other online interference which it is regularly
accused of instigating.
The measures outlined in the law include Russia building its own
version of the net’s address system, known as DNS, so it can operate if
links to these internationally-located servers are cut.
Currently, 12 organisations oversee the root servers for DNS and none
of them are in Russia. However many copies of the net’s core address
book do already exist inside Russia suggesting its net systems could
keep working even if punitive action was taken to cut it off.
The test is also expected to involve ISPs demonstrating that they can
direct data to government-controlled routing points. These will filter
traffic so that data sent between Russians reaches its destination, but
any destined for foreign computers is discarded.
Eventually the Russian government wants all domestic traffic
to pass through these routing points. This is believed to be part of an
effort to set up a mass censorship system akin to that seen in China,
which tries to scrub out prohibited traffic.
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