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-security-service-wants-to-ban-Skype-and-Gmail.html.
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?
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