Dear Lynn, The report seems to be correct. The overall situation is even worse: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8438617/Russian-secu.... Remaining the only independent source of uncensored information, the Internet becomes the real obstacle for the Russian-type ‘controlled democracies’. So I think you are right that the proxy services can be a potential solution; however the Egyptian case proves that the physical disconnection of the network prevents from using any internet-based services, not only proxy services. The good news is that the same Egyptian case has proven that: (a) the interruption of network services cannot stop the public political activities, and only radically increases the number of the angry people, and (b) – because of (a) such interruption cannot last forever in the 21st century. Kind regards, Michael From: lynn@goodsecurityconsulting.com [mailto:lynn@goodsecurityconsulting.com] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:52 PM To: Yakushev Mikhail Cc: rt4-whois@icann.org Subject: news about denial of service attack in Russia Hi Mikhail, Checking to see if you have any comments about this news report? http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/hackers-attack-websites-russian-pape... ; Since there are concerns for the situation of political dissidents (in regards to Whois data), one observation I noted is that the attackers of the website did not need to know the identity or the location of the website content publishers- only the IP address. Along with that, I can see that the blog publisher would probably not want to have their name and contact details published. I am interested in a further exchange of ideas regarding proxy services as a potential way to address this need. Lynn