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Re: russian prefixes


From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat () nuclearcat com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 04:07:12 +0300

On 2021-07-29 20:46, Randy Bush wrote:
Looks like it did shown on news only.

:)

i wondered
They have installed devices called "TSPU" on major operators.
Isolation of specific networks is done without changing BGP announcements, obviously. And the drills do not mean at all "we will turn off the Internet for all the clients and see what happens", journalists trivialized it. Most likely, they checked the autonomous functioning of specific infrastructurally important networks connected to the Internet, isolating only them. It's not so bad idea in general, if someone find another significant bug in common software, to be able to isolate important networks from the internet at the click of a button and buy time for patching systems.


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