On the 11th. They have a kill switch.
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CrystalRaindrops — 4 years ago(March 09, 2022 09:38 AM)
Chernenko’s department said on Monday there were “no plans” to disconnect Russia from the global internet, telling the Russian news agency Interfax that the letter was all about protecting Russian websites from foreign cyberattacks.
According to Alena Epifanova, a Russian cyber-policy expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations, this explanation is quite plausible. “To me, it looks like a normal, reasonable document against the cyberattacks which we observe,” she told Fortune on Monday.
Indeed, Russian online services have been heavily targeted in recent cyberattacks, partly thanks to Ukraine’s enormous volunteer “IT army” and partly because the online hacker collective Anonymous has also declared a “cyber warfare campaign” against Putin and his allies.
“Pretty well every single website in Russia has gone down in the last week, at some stage or another,” said Rafal Rohozinski, principal at the research and strategy outfit SecDev Group. “There’s a lot of concern about that.”
But there's a good reason why some suspect a disconnection is in the works.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/russia-runet-disconnect-ukraine-dns-chernenko-letter/
