When I tell my cat not to get on the table he looks at me like he understands and walks away but we inevitably have the same conversation the very next day.
An iron curtain of the internet is serving who exactly?
If we "Cut Russia off" the state will definitely be able to circumvent the block, ordinary people won't.
At the moment ordinary Russians can and do circumvent the Russian states censorship and that's a very good thing. We don't want to enforce that from our side too.
Lol. M9 is the peering facility in Moscow, a former telephone exchange, which housed tons of KGB monitoring equipment as well which transitioned to the FSB after the iron curtain fell. At one point it was said that 70% of Russia's internet ran through that building. M9 is the original Moscow Internet exchange, MSK-IX , IX being industry terminology for Internet exchange (similar to PAIX for Palo Alto Internet Exchange, and Equinix the data center provider) but is also a clever use of IX as the roman numeral 9 hence M9/MSK-IX. MSK-IX the company also has Internet exchanges in another half doezen or so Russian cities.
20T is a lot of data depending on what it is (text records on activists/spies/war targets?) and M9 is not a small ISP.
Are M9 Telecom and MSCIX connected? I've googled around and thought they are different companies. There's not much info on M9T besides a simple landing suggesting internet\ipTV services, and MSC9 page is about a full-fledged data center used by many. I thought the breach of MSC9 could bring way more problems, more than Kiyvstar. I think they are confused due to their names.
It's probably lost in translation. From everything I've known about visiting the site (physically, not the website), M9 is the name of the building/facility itself.
There is no M9 telecom that I can find reference to other than the news articles talking about this recent hack event. [I take that back. Using the internet archive I was able to see their site m9com.ru. Looks like they are a home user ISP, but I can't find their AS number so I dont know much else about them, or why them being targeted for an attack would be a big deal other than the "spooky hacker stuff" headline.]. The M9 building houses many network and server spaces owned by lots of different Russian ISPs. I guess M9 Telecom could be one of them.
Thought about that too initially. And I think I'd have a harder time sending that message if that happened. Nevertheless, our gov servives are very slow rn and I don't know if it's their failure or someone's feat. With everything I had from federal companies, I'm first to accept the first variant.
I just want to preempt any debate over whether these claims are credible by saying that they are fundamentally not relevant to the long-term needs of this situation.
Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel need to be afforded their human rights. Israelis need security, and will never get it from violence and ruthless persecution of this ethnic underclass they've created.
My point is that if you diagram out the best of course of action, all nodes on that diagram that are based on what Hamas has or hasn't done lead to no meaningful difference. Their violence is abhorrent. There is no point is debating over their tactics or location however, because none of it changes the harsh realities that only a negotiation that provides Palestinians access to safe homes, education, food, etc. is going to bring an end to the cycle of violence, and I feel compelled to point this out whenever these distractions pop up, as they do on a daily basis.
I really have to wonder if they've gotten some kind of pre-emptive support from Biden that is making them believe they'll suffer no harm from retaliatory Lebanese strikes.
I’ve helped ensure that our ravenous base is completely unable to think about gun-related legislation with any nuance or thought. I’ve done a great job at keeping this country as a threat to children. I’m going to go relax now.
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