I am not sure how to feel about this. Will a pariah status
ultimately leave Russia with a more robust and resilient electronic
posture?
In all this jubilation around Russia being "cancelled", I can't help
but wonder if some grand experiment is afoot here, which will further
the splinternet, and lead to more governments secededing global
structures that were ostensibly instruments of peace and cooperation.
I've been all for ways we could use networks to influence Russia, but
I reluctantly had to admit ICANN made the hard, unpopular but correct
decision in rejecting Ukraine's plea to just "unplug" Russia.
The writing has been on the wall since DNS became politicised with
regard to organisations like TPB, Wikileaks and SciHub. Lots of
what's been going on seems against the spirit of the Paris Call of
2018. Are we emboldening regimes and even commercial power blocs to
threaten or impose internet outages?
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadIn all this jubilation around Russia being "cancelled", I can't help but wonder if some grand experiment is afoot here, which will further the splinternet, and lead to more governments secededing global structures that were ostensibly instruments of peace and cooperation.
I've been all for ways we could use networks to influence Russia, but I reluctantly had to admit ICANN made the hard, unpopular but correct decision in rejecting Ukraine's plea to just "unplug" Russia.
The writing has been on the wall since DNS became politicised with regard to organisations like TPB, Wikileaks and SciHub. Lots of what's been going on seems against the spirit of the Paris Call of 2018. Are we emboldening regimes and even commercial power blocs to threaten or impose internet outages?
There are multiple Ukrainian and Polish people working in those companies and a history of internal activism.
My hopeful bet was that US is gathering a ton of intelligence right now from all those sources.