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RBC: Telegram traffic filtering equipment being tested throughout the Urals
Roskomnadzor has begun testing traffic filtering equipment, which should also allow blocking Telegram, throughout the Urals Federal District. Two sources involved in the pilot project told RBC about this.
The Data Center for Processing and Automation (DCPA) company was tasked with covering the entire Urals with such devices by the end of 2019, the publication's sources claim. The company is headed by the former head of Nokia in Russia and former Deputy Minister of Communications Rashid Ismailov.
The systems have already been installed by operators in Yekaterinburg, they are being installed in Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Magnitogorsk and other cities. We are talking primarily about home Internet operators, and the filtering is not tested around the clock. Moreover, all operators have a mechanism for disabling filtering in case the device does not work correctly.
“After the pilot is completed, they will evaluate how ‘toxic’ it was for users, that is, whether it affected the service, and whether everything from the Roskomnadzor registry of prohibited sites was blocked and whether anything unnecessary was blocked,” says a pilot participant in the Urals.
- The testing of the traffic filtering system is part of the implementation of the law on the isolation of the RuNet in the event of threats, which will come into force on November 1.