On 9/20/14, Артур Истомин <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:33:57PM +0100, Nick Sheppard wrote: >> Interesting Guardian article today: Putin considers plan to unplug Russia >> from the internet 'in an emergency'. >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/vladimir-putin-plan-unplug-russia-internet-emergency-kremlin-moscow > > Yes, I'm tired of explaining to all my relatives and friends that the > internet is the last thing they think about in the case of such > 'emergency'. > > And yes, my much loved parents now have another argument against "the > bloody regime of Putin".
Because, of course, other regimes would never consider such a thing <blinks>: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/homeland-security-must-disclose-internet-kill-swit/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html Russia Today response: http://www.rt.com/news/188960-internet-blackout-russia-counter/ -- Banned for life from Debian, for suggesting Debian's CoC is being swung in our faces a little too vigorously. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
