[Rt4-whois] news about denial of service attack in Russia

[Yakushev Mikhail]

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 at goodsecurityconsulting.com [mailto:lynn at goodsecurityconsulting.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:52 PM
To: Yakushev Mikhail
Cc: rt4-whois at 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-paper-blog/ ;

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


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