VIMPELCOM AND RU-CENTER GO AGAINST FSB
VimpelCom, which owns the Beeline brand, is complaining of a constitutional violation. The reason for the appeal was the order of the Ministry of Communications, which requires providers to record their traffic in 12 hours for the needs of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other Russian law enforcement agencies.
The law on operational search measures, the company claims, is contrary to the articles of the basic law, which guarantee the privacy of personal life. As it turned out, the appetite of the special services frightened not only one of the operators of the Big Three, but also other players in the Internet industry. Timur Olevsky went to Ru-Center and found out that he would have to record and who needs it.
The Ministry of Communications has to explain about its own order. It is already called the "wiretap order on the Internet." The press service of the department claims that the order on operational-search measures does not affect the work of providers. The new edition of the system of operational-search measures (SORM) will be the third in a row and, it seems, the most costly for providers. All of them must install equipment on their networks for recording and storing information about Internet traffic, phone numbers, IP addresses, and the names of accounts and email addresses of users of social networks. At RU-Center, the largest content provider and domain administrator, they explained to me today that they would actually have to record all the traffic, including a bunch of service information - where the message came from, where it had gone, it would have to build new workshops with servers.
Evgeny Kuskevich, Head of Network Technologies Department, RU-Center: Put information on some communication channels in 12 hours on hard drives. Simple calculations show that traffic in 12 hours, if we take a band of 10 gigabits per second from an average telecom operator, then we need disk storage for 50-60 terabytes. This disk storage costs about 20 thousand dollars. If we are talking about larger telecom operators, whose traffic is already at hundreds of gigabits per second, respectively, it will be much more expensive.
Alexander Panov, RU-Center registrar general director: This is not even a matter of this particular initiative. It reminds me of some kind of spit into the void, when we have separate ministries, individual departments trying to issue something like a decree, while not even paying attention to the fact that, in fact, the country has existing legislation and the Constitution, and in order for this decree to work, it is not necessary at least to be in conflict.
VimpelCom was the first company to call the attention of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media that their order violates the Constitution. Maybe someone will try to go to court. These millions of dollars that providers will have to spend on supporting government agencies will fall on the shoulders of customers, that is, communication will rise in price, and taxes will decrease. The fact is that owners of interesting information content providers will simply transfer their data centers abroad, away from the FSB and wiretapping laws. And we will receive information on the cable from Germany, for example, however, if you really want to cut this cable, then you can immediately get rid of all the "Internet". Sites are already moving abroad.
The RU-Center also claims that the new law will create new corruption schemes.
Alexander Panov, director general of RU-Center registrar: they will again try to cash out providers, make “feeders”, as is the case with the SORM system, when the law does not say anywhere, but, nevertheless, you want to get a positive conclusion SORM - you need to contact only a certain company for quite modest money.
Record the entire Internet on a floppy disk of enormous proportions will have by the summer of next year. By the way, from Edward Snowden, who has now taken refuge in Russia, we learned that in the United States a similar system works for the money of special services, not business, and not everything is written. They listen to others for state money, and we will listen to ourselves for our own. Serious attackers will continue to use encrypted communication channels that no SORM will open. And in half a day this information will be erased.
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Original message
ну, это у нас в России такие правила, не знаю как там у вас.
