Next week will be a number of events dedicated to the work of Russian Internet in emergencies. They will be attended by senior Russian officials. About this newspaper “Vedomosti” reported by several sources. Consultant Internet security, Cisco Alexei Lukatskii discussed the situation with the leading “Kommersant FM” Oksana Barykina.
The Russian Security Council is expected to raise the issue the isolation of Russian Internet on September 22. Eventually it will make decisions that will strengthen the sovereignty of the Russian segment of the World Wide Web. In particular, there may be a special order of Internet governance – can be off Russia from the global network.
– I would like to understand really is technically possible?
– Technologically, it is indeed possible because the Internet today is a collection of computers, using their addresses, connected by communication channels. Given that the addresses we are given either in Europe or in America, denying addresses, or the desire to take them back can lead to the fact that our computers in Russia, will not be visible from the outside, respectively, we can not go to foreign resources. In essence, it will be considered disconnecting us from the world of the Internet, but after a while we will be able to work in the local Russian Internet without access to foreign resources.
– How this can be done immediately? It is assumed in an emergency, then you need to act quickly.
– Unfortunately, it may be, fortunately, it does not work quickly. In order to have stopped seeing abroad on foreign resources, it takes a few weeks to update all the routing tables, which allow you to transfer data from point A to point B. Fast is not going to happen.
– A development of such instruments in Russia under way or already have?
– In July, training exercises, the results of which, as usual , secret, which was discussed in this topic. What is happening now, it seems, is the result of the exercise performed.
– If you still will be disconnected, there are some tools to get around the ban?
– If we are talking about how to disable us from address is probably something you can find, but there are options for a bit: most sites will just not available. If we shut off from communication channels either from Russia or from Europe and Asia, where we are going to connect the internet connection, you are lucky only to residents of the border areas, which can be connected via a mobile phone to foreign operators. For most other people are, unfortunately, will mean a complete shutdown.
– What do you think, what kind of a situation in which the Russian Internet connection with a global network can pose a danger?
– Call it the ad war with Russia, because we have a very large number of resources related to the economy, finance, tied to the Internet. Of course, conducting cyber attacks on this kind of resources could lead to a threat to national security. Therefore, it may be decided to turn off.
– In the world there is such a practice?
– In the world practice was quite successful attempt to disable Syria, in an attack on its internet equipment, and for a few days, they have lost access to the Internet. A similar example was still in Armenia a few years ago, but there have chopped accidentally cable connecting Armenia with the Internet, they also lost some time on the internet. Either accidentally or intentionally, such examples have already been in history.
– Cable have chopped, but the local cable stayed, was a local internet, right?
– Local online if to prepare for it to be put into action quickly enough.
– A is are chances that the tools can be used to start and no emergencies?
– I do not really believe it, because, in my opinion, it can cause unnecessary anyone social unrest: Still internet users have become accustomed is much more than the French cheese. On the other hand, it is not always technically easy and not always on it to go. Still, it’s a two-way effect: in addition to our trip, we still have to turn off with the groans – and this, in my opinion, is the last step that the West has not even been discussed. Rather, we try to anticipate the possible events that no one has said.
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