True, Poroshenko forbade classmates. The reaction to the ban Poroshenko: social networks under the lock, the matryoshkam will prepare. Will it help Kiev
The President of Ukraine expanded the sanction list against Russia and deprived the Ukrainians the most popular social networks "Vkontakte" and "Classmates". In Russia, such a step is considered ineffective and predict that the Ukrainian users are laid around Tor and VPN. I found out what else to lose in Ukraine and whether Kiev really is able to block at least something.
What happened?
On Tuesday, May 16, Ukraine expanded the sanctions list against Russian companies. The website of the Ukrainian president published a document in which 468 Russian organizations mean.
The greatest resonance was sanctions against social networks "Vkontakte" and "Odnoklassniki", as well as company services and. According to the published document, the social network is to be blocked on the territory of Ukraine, and companies cannot carry out any financial operations and withdraw money or other property outside the country.
Who else was in the list of sanctions?
According to the decree, the majority of Russian television companies are subject to blocking. In the list, first channel, "NTV-Plus", "TNT-TV", "Moscow Media", "National Media Group", TV channels "RTR-Planet", "Russia 24", "", television and radio company "Star", " Our radio and Orthodox Radio "Vera". Softline software developers, 1C, ABBYY, restrictions were also expanded in relation to and Dr.Web.
Photo: Vladimir Astapkovich / RIA Novosti
The document also lists more than 50 Yandex services, but only data on Moscow and Kiev are limited in the Yandex.Pogoda application. All Mail.Ru products are blocked, but which are not specified in the decree.
How did responded in Russia?
Advisor to the President of Russia on the development of the Internet, that such measures are ineffective. He suggested that the blocking of the largest social networks will lead to the fact that citizens of Ukraine will quickly dismiss the methods of circumventing restrictions, using various VPN services and anonymous TOR browser.
Klimenko also noted that companies do not greatly lose in advertising income, since the Ukrainian audience is at times less than the Russian. According to Odnoklassnikov, in Ukraine, the social network is used daily more than five million people. In Vkontakte, Ukrainians account for 17.5 percent of the general audience. According to SimilarWeb, Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte enter the top 5 of the most popular sites in Ukraine.
How did the companies responded?
According to Mail.Ru Group, after the sanctions reported major media, the traffic of Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and other services began to grow sharply. Ukraine's decision of Ukraine recognized as politically motivated and stated that he never violated the laws of the country.
In Mail.Ru, they assured that they will continue to support their services in Ukraine and hinted users to use the means to bypass blocking. In Yandex, they assured that sanctions would not affect business, but the company is very sorry that the Ukrainian user suffers from the actions of the authorities.
Developer of decisions in the field recognition of texts and linguistics ABBYY took the time to explore the possible impact of the sanctions on the business. Many services that have fallen into the sanction list have learned about this from open sources and therefore could not respond promptly.
Exactly blocked?
In the Internet Association of Ukraine, it is believed that Poroshenko's decree will not be easy. According to the chairman of the organization Alexander Fedienko, the operators are simply not ready for such measures and do not have the necessary technical means.
"We believe that blocking is ineffective. But if such a mechanism is embedded in our country, then blocking should occur exclusively by court decision. Because the rest of the mechanisms simply can not be called civilized, "the representative of the Association explained.
One of the largest operators Ukrtelecom has already announced that he began to block resources, and Poroshenko himself
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The decision of the Security Council to prohibit the activities of Russian sabotage resources is not just correct, but also the vital
Surprisingly on the third year of war with Russia to hear outrage about the closure of the basic information and sabotage channels of Russians. Amazingly actually, that this happened only now.
It is not a secret as classmates, Vkontakte, and Mail.Ru are actively used in order to:
a) propaganda and counterpocaganda in the interests of Russian special services;
b) thrust discrediting and fake information in relation to Ukraine, other countries of the former USSR, the EU and the USA;
c) as a network of coordination of the current and recruitment of a new Russian intelligence agent;
d) testing plans to mobilize citizens of the countries of the post-Soviet space and the Russian-speaking diaspora in Western countries;
e) collecting personal and business information about foreign citizens, incl. Ukrainians;
(e) Preparation and shares of terrorist nature.
Therefore, the decision of the Security Council to prohibit activities, let's call them honestly, Russian sabotage resources on the territory of Ukraine, not just correct, but also vital. And this is not a question of information hygiene. We'll have to suffer some inconvenience and transfer correspondence on Yahoo or Gmail.
This task is not exhausted. There is a problem with a number of externally Ukrainian resources, in reality serving the interests of the enemy. The problem requiring your decision.
The hybrid war will gain momentum and what was relevant in 2014, completely changed the appearance after 3 years. To survive, you need to act hard. And the question is about the survival of the country. The truth is that all the hardest is still ahead.
Against Russia. In which is supposed to block access in the Ukrainian territory of social networks "VKontakte", "Odnoklassniki", as well as access to Yandex services (except the main page of the search engine) and Mail.ru.
As part of the restrictions, the sites of Kaspersky Laboratory and DrWeb will also be blocked. Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoron Shkiryak stated that the initiative for the ban is supported by the Presidential and SBU administration. He also urged to join the fight against these resources of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.
Poroshenko talks on the preschool the bike about unprecedented freedom, and then prohibits Vkontakte, Yandes and classmates
- Bad Zyalt (@plohoy_zyalt) May 16, 2017
Poroshenko blocked Yandex, Vkontakte, Mail.Ru, classmates. And they all shout about the "iron curtain" in Russia. pic.twitter.com/cy6piuardx
- eugened. (@ Eugenedx14) May 16, 2017
Multiple Poroshenko. Can you imagine how without wonders will take over the academic character and labor productivity of plankton?
- Sergius Cantor (@SergiusCantor) May 16, 2017
Petro-Poroshenko has strengthened sanctions against Russia and forbade bears, balalaika, matretory and vodka in Ukraine. Then he thought and the vodka did not forbind.
The network also appeared the first memes on the topic of prohibition by social network Peter Poroshenko.
I remembered the users and famous for their "covered phrases" of the mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko, asking him a phrase: "There will be no" Yandex "- there will be no traffic jams."
Ukrainian journalists, meanwhile, are already thinking about how this ban can be circumvented. In particular, the Ukrainian portal ubr.ua writes that one desire of the Ukrainian authorities to combat Russian resources is clearly not enough. Ukrainian experts assess the chances of this "event" as 50 to 50.
It is worth noting that the largest in history of the firewall ("Great Firewall") was created in China. However, network users managed to find ways of "deception" of the Great Chinese Internet Wall.
Most options: Use the TOR, VPN network (when the user connects to the computer outside Ukraine, and from there goes to the desired site). And blocking does not work. At the same time, the user does not necessarily have some kind of special literacy in the field of IT, there are a lot of services, both paid and free, which can help any person bypass such bans.
About the holes in the decree of Poroshenko later. And in the Internet Association of Ukraine, they admitted that today the blocking of Russian sites is technically impossible to block the Ukrainian providers.
Social networks "VKontakte" and "Odnoklassniki" no. Therefore, it is possible to expect that the popularity of Facebook will increase after the introduction of the prohibition. According to some data, more than 12 million Ukrainians use the social network "VKontakte".
At the same time, there is a subtle moment of the user's habit, since all social networks have individual features, thanks to which loyalty is formed. Therefore, a person may prefer to travel a banner for the habit, and not the transition to another social network.
Meanwhile, the State Duma deputy, Deputy Secretary of the Unified Russia Sensuit, Evgeny Rubno, believes that the Ukrainian nationalists are trying to limit people in their rights and freedoms, bringing a blow to millions of users. He wrote about it in his facebook.
"Blow to the right to free information and communicate with each other through social networks. All these actions lie in the logic of attempts to break the links between our countries. This is unpromising and irresponsible," he said.
The Russian senator Alexey Pushkov, in turn, noted that Maidan promised the Ukrainians freedom, and gave a "informational dictatorship."
Following the "irony of fate" Poroshenko banned Ross.Internet resources in Ukraine. Maidan promised freedom - about the informatat. Irony Ukr.Sudbya
- Alexey Pushkov (@alexey_pushkov)
Intelligence:
I think each of you at least once, but I saw the results of the work of OSINT specialists: Bellingcat, Informnapalm, Sled_VZayt and so on. In short: groups of researchers, based on open information (mainly in social networks), they are not given that not yet 20 years ago, not a single worldwind. The number and origin of armored vehicles in a particular place. Names and titles of personnel. The roles of concrete people in specific events.
Now imagine the capabilities of the same people, but have access to the closed information of social networks (which is at least 2 times more) and even better with direct access to the database. One request in EXIF \u200b\u200bdatabase with the desired coordinates will give you hundreds of detailed photos of strategic objects. A competently built request for the graph of users will give a full list of personnel and their current location. If you think that we do not have military personnel of non-loving fun pictures in Vkontakyk - you are very mistaken.
Schactivists from the Lviv Metro: Falcons Flame, Trinity and others, in one hacking of personal correspondence even an ordinary militant arrange a local apocalypse with whole combat groups and FSB departments. Now imagine that it is not necessary to crack: the entire correspondence in VK and Mail.ru is at your disposal and read and write.
We will take away a little from the military sphere. Tens or hundreds of thousands of financial and political documents go through Mail.ru mail every day. Googling official emails of our state structures: Mail.ru and Yandex.ru. A huge number of state officials, judges and law enforcement officers are there mail. Many have closed groups in VK and OK. The amount of inside in these groups and personal correspondence will allow, with the right approach, to sink our public sector and the economy for days.
Thousands of state officials and security workers lead personal correspondence: mistresses, lovers, bribes, discussion of expensive purchases, documents for unlated real estate and hundreds of other topics. Any of them are an almost one hundred percent hook for recruitment. Already, for the conditional eggs, hundreds of people with access to Gostain are tightly held. Even more eggs are those who can take the right decision. Do you need to speak on the side of Ruskomir Titus in the days of the cops? Without problems, you go into the correspondence of the pair of generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and are ready. Ideally, if he is a fan of boys or changes his wife - the daughter of his patron.
At the same time, it is not necessary to conduct correspondence in VK, OK and others like them. About 90% (if no more) The target audience uses the same password for all its services. Is it worth saying that the rest are happy to give maiden the name of his mother and nicknamed his first dog?
Inside is terrible and scary undervalued force. And millions of Ukrainians give his enemy every day voluntarily, for free music and classes.
Let us turn to the information:
The role of social networks and news aggregators in this war seems to not understand even those who believe that it is huge. Many Ukrainians are accustomed to not trust TV. But here "information from one familiar" is perceived with a bang, even if it is absurd. Recall, where did the information about the "Right Sector Friendship" trains and "Gradi" in the Crimea and the "Right Sector" train and "Grades" under Slavic? From the TV?
Man's brain is a strange thing. When he gives something to what he wants to believe, he interprets the information in the right direction and begins to believe in it. So, written by an unfamiliar person, the story of "Grades of the right sector" turns into history, at best, "from my good friend," and at worst "personally saw." It is only worth answering friendship request and get a couple of classes and 5 stars to AVE, as any information from it becomes first-hand information. It would be a desire to believe.
To instill a desire to believe too easy. Some frankly delusional materials affecting the strings of the soul (about the fascists, the oppression of the Russian language, etc.) are already sealing in the head of "precipitate". The refutation of the role does not play. The refutation is dry and no string clings. And if this information from "My Good Familiar" is often not working in everything. "You are all lying!". And these acquaintances are sitting right now in friends with your moms, dads, neighbors, colleagues ...
How many biblies in vk and ok frankly terrorist or separatist orientation managed to close? How many accounts encounters to the civil war and armed coups managed to find and bring to justice? Units and then not thanks to the administration. We do not have any control, nor influence on the Society controlled FSB. They do not care about frank violations of international law. At the same time, try creating a group of "Crim Tse Ukraine" in the VC and measure how much she lives.
Skillfully filed and dosage information is very valuable for propaganda. Recently, a series of rallies against the current government took place in the Russian Federation. About hundred thousand people came to the streets. Yandex, you who defend you, not missing this. What do you think he misses and does not miss for Ukrainians? And how clearly it can target information, knowing who you are, where are you going to take a taxi, what movies are watching?
Afterword:
Many opponents of the locks suggest that hypothetically, power may in the future apply the experience of blocking for their political goals.
Alia! Practically, it is not hypothetically and right now, you take at home, families, kill your friends. Now!
When someone tries to use political locks: we will deal with this. And now, re-read this text again, say it to friends and see where and what your friends and parents read. Otherwise, one day you will also wake up without a home. And you will understand that you are not able to calculate the risks.
After-afterword for commentators:
Dear commentators, if you do not agree with me, but there is nothing to objectly, except for "and what Ahmєt doesn't know", "and I still think that the banns are bad." If you think that you can train computer security 40 million people. If you really do not understand the difference between the search capabilities of the relational and graph database and the banal cornering or tissue / hacking a particular person or you just too lazy to read the post - do not write a comment. I am not a politician, I can send and ban on * yy. Text for those who can think and read, rather than sofa experts in everything and just rams.
Andrei Savchenko, blogger, Facebook.
Poroshenko's president signed a decree on expanding sanctions against Russian companies, under which the social network "Odnoklassniki" and "Vkontakte", Mail Server Mail.Ru, Yandex, as well as developers of popular antivirus programs. In other words, the Ukrainian president banned the communication of friends among himself on virtual sites.
With irony in Ukrainian television, today they met the news of the day: President Petro Poroshenko banned the social network. Millions of Ukrainian users "Vkontakte", "Odnoklassniki" are delivered before the fact: with friends on virtual sites will have to say goodbye. Forget about maps, translating, music and other Yandex services, about mailboxes on Mail.Ru. IT companies with Russian registration fell under sanctions.
"Poroshenko introduced the decision of the National Security Council and Defense Council of Ukraine on the introduction of sanctions against social networks" VKontakte "and" Odnoklassniki ", as well as resources of service" Mayl.ru ", Yandex and Yandex.Ukrain. The sanctions were introduced for three years, "the press service of the President of Ukraine said.
Four out of the ten most popular sites in the country are blocked. According to experts, in March, only the Network "Vkontakte" used half the virtual audience of Ukraine - more than 15 million people.
"Stupidity, of course, I don't care what to ban. I can not say that I am a superactive user, but it would be better for serious things "," We do not see anything good about it! We are accustomed to social networks. Our life is a solid social network, "say passersby.
Decree provoked hundreds of posts on the Internet, where businessmen are expressed. The President today banned the use of the Russian accounting system for 1C.
- "The first day in the history of Ukraine, when you regret that the president has no interest in IT business."
- "Well sho, dreamed? Today your "classmates covered". And at the same time the most popular 1C accounting program on which 80 percent of the business works. "
Mail.Ru noted that they regret the politically motivated decision of Kiev, from which 25 million inhabitants of Ukraine would suffer. In Yandex, they stated that it was not just sanctions against ordinary citizens, but also against thousands of Ukrainian companies that use services for business development.
The reaction followed from the Kremlin. Press-secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov called Poroshenko's decree next manifestation of unfriendly and short-sighted policy towards Russia.
The Foreign Ministry drew West attention to violation by Ukraine by international norms. The new test of censorship experts call "step into an authoritarian future."
"In fact, the Ukrainian government takes repressive methods and relative to people who express an alternative point of view, and relative to the entire population of Ukraine regarding the availability of this or that information. That is, the government is very afraid that the population will receive the truth, will read the truth. And such repressive methods she tries to prevent this, "said the political scientist Denis Denisov.
Talk about the possibility of blocking social networks in Ukraine began in February. Allegedly "Sitting" in social networks "Vkontakte" and "Odnoklassniki" is not patriotic. At the same time, alternatives, for example, in the form of a National Ukrainian social network, citizens do not offer. Not only access to all listed Internet resources is prohibited. The activities of their subsidiaries and branches operating in Ukraine will be blocked. Judging by the text of the application to the decree, they will not be able to dispose of their bank accounts and property. Assets are frozen.
It is noteworthy that even on Sunday at a large press conference in Kiev, the Ukrainian leader assured journalists in an unprecedented level of freedom in the country.
"Never in the entire history of the country, Ukraine did not have such a level of freedom, including in relation to journalists, including in relation to public figures," said Peter Poroshenko then.
"We are dealing with some kind of convulsions of the Ukrainian authorities. These all attempts to block the channels, access to information ... The government will act in a variety of destinations, the situation in full deadlock. And it all happens against the background of a worsening economic situation, against the background of what tens, hundreds of thousands of people are deprived of work, "says Political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky.
In addition to social networks, a terrible virus for the national security of Ukraine, in the opinion of its authorities, for some reason, Russian manufacturers of antivirus programs. The black list also features the largest Russian media, including the "Channel One". Total Poroshenko forbade about 500 legal and more than a thousand individuals. Despite the fact that the presidential decree comes into force on the day of publication until providers started to execute it. According to experts, it will not be easy to do it.
"It is very interesting to see how Ukraine will ensure the prohibition of access. There will be part of users who will learn to use VPN, TOR. Social networks like "VKontakte" are what people are very valued, "said the adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the development of the Internet Hermann Klimenko.
Now all forbidden sites in Ukraine continue to work. You can, for example, go to Mail.Ru freely and check mail. And, as stated in the Internet Association of Ukraine, providers are really technically ready to block all the information. How many time they need - unknown.
