Re: Ukraine request yikes

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Anybody remember the days when:

- News of the USSR's fall was leaking out over USENET?

- Folks were live posting from gas-proofed rooms in Israel, during one 
of the wars?

There is a reason that the US Government was developing and promulgating 
things like TOR, for a while.  Kind of useless if we cut the lines of 
communication.  (Of course, removing DNS records doesn't effect 
connectivity.)

Miles Fidelman


Matt Hoppes wrote:
> Information sharing should increase on the ATTACKED side... it should 
> DECREASE and be cut off on the non-provoked attacker's side.
>
> On 3/1/22 3:53 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 12:19 AM George Herbert 
> > <george.herbert () gmail com <mailto:george.herbert () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Posted by Bill Woodcock on Twitter…
> > https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1498472865301098500?s=21
> >
> >     https://pastebin.com/DLbmYahS
> >
> >     Ukraine (I think I read as) want ICANN to turn root nameservers off,
> >     revoke address delegations, and turn off TLDs for Russia.
> >
> >     Seems… instability creating…
> >
> >     -george
> >
> >
> >
> > Information sharing should increase during wartime, not decrease.
> >
> > Restricting information is more often the playbook of authoritarian 
> > regimes,
> > and not something we should generally support.
> >
> > Besides, GhostWriter is based out of Belarus, not Russia proper.  ^_^;
> > https://www.wired.com/story/ghostwriter-hackers-belarus-russia-misinformationo/ 
> >
> >
> > Matt


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