Subj : Russian intranet
To : andrew clarke
From : Daniel Path
Date : Tue Mar 15 2022 10:27 am
Hello andrew,
12 Mar 22 12:51, you wrote to All:
ac> If Putin continues his megalomania it's increasingly likely Russia
ac> will be disconnected from the global Internet, with the government
ac> there choosing to run their own Intranet instead.
ac> Such a plan has been documented by the BBC and presumably others:
ac>
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496 "Russia 'successfully
ac> tests' its unplugged internet", 2019-12-24
ac>
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60661987 "Russia-Ukraine: Is
ac> internet on verge of break-up?", 2022-03-09
ac> Conceivably Fido's "underground" nature may aid the prevention of
ac> misinformation, but this can only go so far, and won't work if an
ac> entire country unplugs itself. Then you're back to the sneakernet
ac> days. Presumably the Russian government would also like inspect all
ac> their citizens snail mail next.
ac> A side-effect of Russia's disconnection will be that many of the
ac> Russian developers who regularly post patches to FOSS projects like
ac> BinkD, Husky, GoldED+ etc will be locked-out of the official repos on
ac> GitHub. They might choose to maintain their own forks hosted on a
ac> Russian server but if development continues those forks will slowly
ac> get out of sync with the main repos. They may also have to abandon the
ac> idea of FidoNet altogether if it becomes impossible to communicate
ac> with anyone outside Russia.
ac> Also worth mentioning, the main BinkD repo is maintained by a
ac> Ukranian.
ac> In the overall scheme of things most of this is trivial, and some of
ac> these projects are fairly dormant anyway. But as an Australian living
ac> on the other side of the world, Fido development has been basically my
ac> only contact with Russian people over the years, so the above thoughts
ac> popped into my head.
ac> My thoughts are with the Ukrainians currently under attack, and the
ac> many Russians who oppose the invasion.
they can switch back to plain old telephone lines an can collect fidonet
via that :)
Regards,
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dp
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