Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) announced that from March 10, users in Russia will have “slowed down” access to Twitter… The reasons were the ignorance by the administration of the social network of the requirements for compliance with the norms of national legislation, as well as an attempt to protect citizens from the negative impact of “illegal content”.
This is the first stage of restrictive measures. If Twitter does not obey the ultimatum of the supervisory authority, then Roskomnadzor is ready to completely block access to the social network. Moreover, the next target of the department should be a social network. Facebook…
The press release of Roskomnadzor sounds quite menacing, but you cannot read it on the official website of the department. Apparently, as part of the fight against Twitter, officials managed to bring down the entire Russian segment of the Internet. Yes, story with a lock Telegram repeated.
The results are both funny and scary. According to preliminary data, official portals “fell” The Kremlin, governments, State Duma, Federation Council, Security Council, The Investigative Committee, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Economic Development, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia… Moreover, the sites do not work Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media and … Roskomnadzor itself.
Subscribers also complain about problems with access to the Network Rostelecom… However, the provider clearly did not collapse entirely, because its servers store personal data used by other companies, including Google…
As people gloomily sarcastically, in the fight against the rebellious social network, the officials managed to “hack” themselves. At the same time, the vast majority of people did not notice any problems with access to Twitter.
But there is also an alternative explanation for what is happening. Last year, the American authorities accused “Russian hackers” of organizing a massive cyber attackdirected against US government departments.
Attackers exploited vulnerabilities in software from Microsoft and SolarWinds… Later, the products of the companies were used to attack other people.
Last week sources The New York Times reported that in response, Washington intends to organize a combined retaliatory strike against Russia’s infrastructure. This is a cyberattack that will be “invisible” to the rest of the world, but “obvious” to President Vladimir Putin and the security forces. The Americans will supplement it with a new package of economic sanctions.
Update. Users report problems with access to services Google, Qiwi, Steam, Telegram, Ozon, Yandex, VTB, MTS etc. Also, there were problems uploading images to Twitter, so people are advised to use VPN…
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