Internet Disruptions Sweep Russia, Affecting Banks, Telecoms, and Government Services

>According to sources cited by The Moscow Times in the cybersecurity, the failure was caused by the "overstrain" of technical tools for countering threats (TSPU) managed by the state regulator Roskomnadzor. For the past few months I've heard similar talks in the communities dedicated to bypassing blocks and censorship. Apparently Telegram, which is partially blocked (voice/video calls don't work without a VPN), magically came back online during this "disruption". So I suppose there's some truth to the DPI being overloaded. Probably some DPI box installed on a transit provider died and screwed up things since not all ISPs were affected. Kinda funny how Rostelecom was also one of the affected services, considering they're involved in developing/maintaining those TSPU systems.

The IT department over there is fighting for their absolute lives right now. Somebody definitely pushed a bad update straight to production.

Russia is a failed state

I wonder if there are remote pockets of rural Russia with little to no idea that there isn’t still a tsar. Who have no idea, and give no shits, about any of the political changes in Russia, because their lives have been essentially the same for generations.

Welcome to gulagistan.

Is that why listnook got all shitty earlier today?

Russian security agency must have mucked too much around and the internet blew the fuse.

Why couldn’t this happen during our last presidential election? 

gonna go back to literal telegrams 

should have happened years ago

Hopefully a sign Ukraine is taking the kid gloves off.

they're putting up literal payphones in moscow, it's wild