With the modem to the exit!

If this is called the “assistance of the development of independent media through the introduction of information and communication technologies” or “the development of the infrastructure of public access networks”, then gentlemen from the Ministry of Communications , who developed the Electronic Russia program, use the terminology, which is unknown to most citizens. Over time, citizens get used to it, humble, dutifully nod, begin to use phrases gleaned from official documents, and then some other department comes and scares citizens with a new metaphors system to death.

In general, it was extremely strange to find out that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia plans to develop and make the State Duma of amendments to the Law " On Security " to the State Duma, according to which the total registration of all Internet users in the internal affairs bodies should become mandatory. With reports of providers about how many users they have and who these users are, with permission to use the modem according to the preliminary recommendation from the housing committee, district and household neighbors. As well as mandatory commission fees in favor of the state. You can say a nightmare that has come true. China and Burma. Whistle everyone up. The NTV and TV -6 were uprooted - they took up the Internet. Freedom of speech on the Web is strangled in the bud. And so on.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to communicate with reporters refused to flatterly and to comment on all requests to comment on this savagery to send a fax with an official request. This went on all morning, and at 11.45 RIA Novosti published an official refutation : no such Ministry of Internal Affairs works on anything, no similar offers from the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were received, and all this is a complete absurdity. High -quality exposure of adrenaline into the blood systems of numerous observers. No more.

Generally speaking, despite the fact that non -existent (for example, we believed in the refutation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) the amendments look wild, there is nothing incredible in them. The registration of modems and the payment fee until recently were mandatory (now, in anticipation of timely time, this fee is canceled, as well as the fee for the use of fax). But since this registration took place at the level of local PBXs and the same PBX was controlled (mainly by random detection), the number of registered modems was meager. In the best case, the user went with his modem to the ATS to give up in exchange for modernizing the telephone line or replacing rotten wires in the apartment.

Register modems at the level of iron sellers, of course, is more effective. That is, even if the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not really bear similar plans, it is easy to assume that they will pop up more than once. Why is it necessary for the registration of the modem the conclusion of the housing committee, the precinct, and even more than the neighbors (the last condition is logical only in the case of paired phones, on which no normal person with a modem will be able to survive), is not quite obvious. Apparently, to catch more fear on a poor teenager with Zyxel.

We are talking about legislative initiatives, the existence of which is officially refuted. Do you remember yes?

Ultimately, the main question with which acute inflammation occurs periodically, which gives as a result the sensation first, then refutations - all this noise, in short, - why is it all needed? Why are the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs registration of modems? Why did they suddenly need to include a clause on "unlawful access to computer information" in article 272 of the Criminal Code?

In fact - why? An employee of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate of Crimes in the field of high technologies ("R"), who asked not to name his name, explained to the faces:

"The control of the Internet by law enforcement agencies is unrealistic in general. The main reason is the lack of law on telecommunication relations. There is no legal basis for a citizen, Internet user, register with the police, register his computer, etc. The second difficulty is technical. A specialist in a matter of minutes can change the database of his computer, called, to remove all the ends. Now only in Moscow there are only such geniuses, such geniuses, only in Moscow. It seems that Abdulov played, not even hundreds, but thousands.

We are not faced with the task of "cover" all users of Runet. We are fighting with the spread of children's pornography, with subsurbed holders, architects, organizers of custom -made murders, financial scammers. And I repeat: for an effective struggle against Internet forensic, we do not have enough laws today. "

This is on the one hand. But there is another. Anti -Utopia is our favorite genre. Of the sources who prefer to remain unnamed, it is known that the Internet providers who opened in Moscow over the past year could not get a license to provide telematic services, without having previously provided law enforcement agencies with the technical ability to listen (which, as far as can be understood, so far no one has been used). Sorm-2 has not gone anywhere. However, in the absence of even semi -official evidence of this information at this stage, it is reasonable to qualify it as rumors.

Unilateral (only through Internet providers) control is not that technically impracticable - implemented, of course, is simply unprofitable. Too much data will have to be processed. We have to at least partially agree with the representatives of the FBI, who explained the security of the Carnivore system by the practical impossibility of collecting and processing data about all the provider users at the same time. Simultaneous accounting of users and, thus, carefully focused point listening could become a more effective tool for catching new generation offenders, in the general case, choosing between a porn site and a collection of essays. That is, the perverted logic in these - officially refuted, I remind you - is clearly present by lawy protection fabrications.

Interdepartmental Information Security Commission at the Security Council , which refers to the plot discoverer with the Ministry of Internal Affairs Marat Khairullin from the " New Izvestia " also acts with perverted logic. The Security Council is concerned “negatively of Russia” and works on a document called on this negative image to turn cheerful colors into a chintz, but it is unlikely that you can surprise anyone: the data that the country's foreign service is engaged in similar things , which tracks critical statements to our delightful state, the statements of the Russian intelligentsia abroad appeared in December 2000. Therefore, let the Ministry of Internal Affairs deny the information eager for "new news", and even if not hesitated at the same time. The presence of logic in what is happening - special, state of such logic - is enough to wait for the continuation with pessimism.

Against the background of these cataclysms, the introduction of the state standard for electronic publications ( GOST 7.83-2001 "Electronic publications. Main types and weekend information" ) looks just a childish point. At first glance, of course, the horror story: what the standard title page of the web publication should look like and what should be written on it. Why a slurred interstate state of standardization, metrology and certification occurred to the head to suddenly take an interstate standard for electronic publications is completely non -notable. But bureaucratic logic works here - and you know, sometimes this is a great success that it works.

Because in the Russian Federation there are only sixteen systems of compulsory certification in various unsafe fields of activity: certification of information security tools for information security requirements (by the way, for some reason, certification of explosive industries, certification of federal railway transport, certification of power supply, products and services in fire safety, marine civilians, marine civilian vehicles certification. etc. In a word, only certification of what can take off into the air at any moment is required - the media is not here yet. Certification of everything else is a purely voluntary work .

And, which is characteristic, even in the list of services subject to voluntary certification, there are no media (there is a “system of certification and evaluation of intellectual property objects” and “system of voluntary certification of information technologies”, but no more certification systems are detected to the media). Therefore, the State Standard on Electronic Media, presumably, does not threaten - in any case, it is not dangerous.

Regarding the accounting of users and total tracking, I would not say just as confidently. This, of course, contradicts the noble goals of the Electronic Russia program, but in the end, will the law enforcement agencies stop, if necessary, if necessary?