The war between Russia and Ukraine is not a battle that takes place only on the ground. What we are witnessing is (also) una cyber war, one of those that are fought both in the real world and in the virtual one.
After days of clashes with Anonymous hackers and the suspension of the services offered by the tech giants, Moscow seems ready for the most extreme of solutions: abandon the Internet.
Or rather, abandoning the global version of the network, the one we use every day and which allows us to surf anywhere, without limits.
According to what was reported on Twitter by EMPR, an independent Ukrainian media, Russia has asked to transfer all servers and domains within state borders to prepare for disconnection from the global internet.
To testify all this there would be two pages of documents that describe in detail the infrastructure of the new network.
The prospect is downright disturbing. First of all one of the principles of the Internet is violated, according to which access should be free, always and in any case. Secondly this would condemn the Russians to only biased information and total isolation from the rest of the world.
But there is more. Russia has been preparing for this eventuality for years. In fact, in 2019 Moscow had carried out a test to verify the feasibility of the thing, explaining that the intent was to defend itself from any cyber attacks and covering the costs necessary for the modification of the infrastructure by the various operators. In short, it is clear that they already know how to move and what to expect. The question is, will they really do it?