The Internet community is seething for weeks after final adoption and approval of the “Spring package” is perhaps the most radical changes which affect the Internet: 2018 operators will be required up to six months to store all data that is downloaded by users and to provide the FSB with copies of all encryption keys that are used to transfer secure traffic across communication channels.
In the it industry have not been such unanimity and unity; rejection of “Spring package” rallied the Indies of the Pirate party and respectable the it functionaries from ROCIT; opposition activists of society of Protection of the Internet and Roskomsnab, and appointed President of the Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev, together with the expert group “Communication and security” under the government of the Russian Federation.
Nevertheless, the law was hastily adopted at the last plenary session of the state Duma of the VI convocation. Some members of Parliament who podravanje, shy or maybe just — plain text said: everyone knew the sad consequences of this law, many were against it, but still voted for it. Live on “echo of Moscow” said, sitting across from me, Andrey Tumanov, first Deputy Chairman of the profile, it-shnogo of the Committee of the state Duma. Tumanov said during our conversation in the air of “echo of Moscow”, that he, like many, was against it, but voted in favour in order to save place and to get to the lists in the new convocation of the state Duma.
Another tragicomic happened with Leonid Levin, not only by the Chairman of the it Committee of the state Duma, but also the Chairman of the Board ROCIT: in the second of these forms he signed and sent to the state Duma a scathing negative review on the bill… and at first dutifully pressed the button approval. True the vote “for” explained technical glitch, he is bravely abstained.
All this in the first place provides a clear picture of the power, which stood for “Spring pack” and move it. With all the servility of the state Duma of the VI, such a vote by orders was not typical, even for her; at least, for the deputies had to push someone who it depends on who and what places will be in the lists of candidates for elections is apparent from the reservations of the Deputy Tumanova. We know this force: it is not the leaders of parliamentary parties and is not the Deputy Irina Yarovaya. We must assume that such influence has the administration of the President. In this organ, in volodinskaya the Department of internal policy, are generated and shuffled lists, and the deputies know it best — and if they admit that voting for the “Spring package” was due to the possibility of the new Duma, it means that the requirement to vote came precisely from the AP; an indication of any other place it would hardly be perceived by MPs seriously.
AP ensures the implementation of the political agenda of the Kremlin, but is not an independent actor. The task of Vyacheslav Volodin to pull some strings and be a conduit of decisions made by someone. Who? In the case of “Spring package” possible to assert almost certainly (at least in this fits the majority of the expert Kremlinologists) — source of “anti-terrorism laws was the security Council informal and a strange on at different times, the former very influential center of power, the place of honor links to exhaust their bureaucrats.
Now at the head of the Security Council — one of the closest associates of President Putin, a veteran of the security services Nikolai Patrushev. Pensioners of his age is often characterized govarivali, and Patrushev have made many interventions in the media with explicit columns summarizing his simple doctrine. She comes from youth, from the happy 70s the St. Petersburg KGB-schnick, when girls were beautiful, and the sores are not tortured.
And this is the doctrine of the Cold war surrounded by enemies, NATO is a hybrid war, the United States wants to destroy us ahead technologically, Internet — demonic weapon. Patrushev wrote this many times, and quite openly, so surprised that the security Council pushed through in our lives, “Spring package”? There, after all, is a club of veterans of the security services, that it would be good to sit on the bench, to slaughter a goat and to gossip about the poor Americans; but so fate decreed, and today these old men with their homegrown conspiracy theories — not just military retirees, and all of the classmates and colleagues of the President, to whom he was accustomed to listen. Putin is one of them; the same pensioner, a veteran of the Cold war.
Once we accept that the “Spring package” — is the brainchild of the security Council, so once everything falls into place and becomes clear. What there the objections of industry and government experts; what there calculations operators on some 5 trillion rubles required for the construction of data warehouses, not to mention the constitutional provision on the inadmissibility of violation of the secrecy of correspondence and private life — if you are playing for bigger Stakes In the great Geopolitical Game? If we threaten the enemy in the Second Cold?
After all, taught our veterans in their highest schools of the KGB in the 70’s? To catch spies. To infiltrate, to recruit, to follow. In that analog world to catch spies was interesting and enjoyable: watching him until he hides the microfilm in the usual place, watching the appointed place and catch whoever came for the microfilm in disguised under the cobblestone container, spinning chain cunning enemy intent.
The Internet has confused all the cards. Do not go anywhere. To meet with anyone not necessary. The data channel starts from any point and at any point ends — by air, via cell towers, fiber optic network or a satellite antenna. Data packets go, I hate to think what they want: each pack itself determines and sets an optimal route, each second other. And all this at the request of the user (and not the permission of the licensing authority) may be mathematical with ultra-reliable protected cryptographic key to decipher the impossible.
NOT-WHO-CAN-BUT.
Mathematically.
