All encryption certificates in our overseas, mainly American, reminiscent of specialists in the IT-sphere. On American root servers are zone files .ru. American structure, responsible for managing global IP-addresses, assures: The US government does not go to "crazy step" - the prevention of access to the Internet. But the Americans have already taken such steps, and consciously.
The implementation of an autonomous RuNet bill is not intended to disconnect users from the Internet, He stressed on Wednesday one of the authors of the initiative, State Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi,. Wherein, Lugovoi said, danger of Russia off from the global network of existing.
"The Internet was created US Department of Defense, there are in the world - and more of them exist technologically can not - 13 root server, where all the domain names, - quoted parliamentarian "Interfax". - Everything 13 Servers are in the NATO countries, in the case of disconnection of these root servers, the entire population of Russia is not able to communicate either domestically, or externally ".
On Thursday, in the appropriate committee of the State Duma's Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications will once again discuss the amendments to the bill on the protection of the Russian Network. In order to experience the importance of the initiative, you need to understand: really so easy, relatively speaking, "turning the switch", leave Russia without access to the World Wide Web - and thus, and, eg, free online banking and other necessities of life?
According to the head "of import substitution in the field of ICT Competence Center", former deputy head of the Ministry of Communications Ilya Massukh, technical means such a lot of outages. "For example, all routers operate in a particular language binding. Therefore, we can give the team a router with a particular language binding not to pass requests », - said Massukh.
The same opinion and CEO of "Ashmanov and partners" Igor Ashmanov. He pointed to the same problem, that MP Lugovoi - Russia does not have its DNS root servers. .ru zone files are on the root servers abroad, mainly in the US.
"We do not have their trusted authorities, issuing certificates. Therefore, all encryption certificates in our overseas, mainly American, - said Ashmanov. - Accordingly,, if a revoked certificate, This will bring down to us virtually the entire Internet.
routing, name resolution is also possible to disable. That is my understanding, that most of the Internet, If suddenly there some sharp conflict with the Americans, US can disable ".
In the United States there are other ways to bring Russia into trouble with the help of the Internet. "We should not forget, that in the hands of the Americans is quite a lot of content: eg, Google, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, - recalled Ashmanov. - Because they are in the jurisdiction of the United States, in the zone of the so-called freedom of the hammer (former "Patriot Act"), they can simply order, How to order at the time Microsoft does not give us the updates in the Crimea and some of our companies. This is absolutely the real thing. Then we have the little that remains ".
Own "domain holders" assure, that no disconnection will not. for example, David Conrad, ICANN Board Member, organization headquartered - note - to the United States for the management of domain names and IP-based, which is run by just DNS world.
"If the US government has gone to such a mad step, This would guarantee led to the generation of alternative root servers. Damage to the Internet as a global market and a means of communication would be much higher than the benefits ", - he was quoted as saying, "Deutsche Welle".
Conrad drew attention to the fact, that in case of disconnection from the Russian root server Runet disappears, and will work with other mirrored servers, that is, including in Russia. The delay in the transfer of letter domain names into IP, when instead of the usual address in the command line will have to recruit a certain number, increase access time to a site on a tiny time, a few milliseconds. As a result, the United States itself will suffer from the loss of trust in them.
However, there is reason to believe, that the US authorities still were at similar risk, and more than once. So, according to information, provided by Edward Snowden, The United States are directly related to the shutdown of the Internet in Syria, occurring 29 November 2012 of the year.
For more than two days almost the entire country did not have access to the World Wide Web.
The aim of the US NSA (this special service, According to Snowden, and stood up for action) was the introduction of bookmarks in the router software provider of the largest Syrian. The goal - to gain control of government organizations traffic. However, instead of the control turned off the country's total Internet.
AT 2003 year, when US troops were in Iraq, National domain of the country .iq ICANN's decision has been withdrawn from the national administrator of Iraq - the company InfoCom. The reason for this decision was the failure to fulfill the obligations of the company in the domain of development. Meanwhile, earlier InfoCom has been convicted, in cooperation with the US is considered a terrorist organization Hamas. Website to Hamas 1998 year was on the server of the University of Dallas, Texas. The initiator of the deployment was the Palestinians who lived in the US, one of the ideologues of Hamas, Musa Abu Marzouk, who was part of InfoCom management.
by the way, adopted in US law, aimed at combating piracy and copyright protection on the Internet, extend the jurisdiction of the country in an online environment outside the territory of States. US courts have repeatedly handed down a decision on withdrawal of the IP-addresses and domain names from their owners, even if they were not citizens of the United States and did not live in this country.
It should also be noted, that the US has recently been paying great attention to the problem of using the Internet as a weapon of foreign influence. This topic is largely devoted to the adoption in September of last year, the National Cyber Security Strategy for the United States. "We are taking measures against malicious, sponsored at the state kiberaktivnosti, which is, in fact, destabilizing and contrary to US national interests, their partners and allies ", - stated in this document.
It is on the National Strategy for Cybersecurity senators referred Klishas, Lyudmila Bokova and State Duma Deputy Andrei Lugovoi,, when we introduced into the State Duma a bill, which aims to protect the Internet in Russia in the case of, if he is under threat from abroad. The point of this document is precisely in the creation of infrastructure replacement, if the Americans try to disconnect from the Internet Russia, about how they cut off Syria.
Oleg Moskvin,
Lyudmila Surkov
