Whitelists Will Be Cleaned Up
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The Ministry has begun to fight websites on the white list containing "proscribed content" in Russia, including the "VPN services" label, written by RBC.
The Russian Ministry of Statistics has begun to fight websites that are available during the blackout of the mobile Internet but contain prohibited content, including advertising of VPN services. According to the publication, the Ministry has sent a letter to host providers, web-protection services and CDN providers asking them to allocate IP resource addresses from the so-called "white list" to separate subnets.
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Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development sent a formal letter to hosting providers, CDN networks and cybersecurity companies requesting that IP addresses be removed from a special “whitelist” and placed into isolated subnets. This measure aims to eliminate bans on unnecessary resources such as VPN services, pharmacies, and pornographic websites. The problem stems from the architecture […] The post Clearing the “whitelist”: Why the Ministry of Di…
The Ministry requests that the IP addresses be identified from the white list, that sites be optimized, that banned resources and VPN be excluded, that experts ' views on the implementation of the initiative be identified
RBC reports that the Ministry has sent a letter to host providers, web security services and CDN providers (services that store copies of sites on distributed servers and expedite their downloading) requesting the allocation of IP resource addresses from the white list to separate sub-networks. This needs to remove prohibited resources from the white infrastructure — drug shopping, intimate services and VPN services.
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