Russia Imposes 24-Hour Mobile Internet Blackout For Travelers Returning Home (therecord.media)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/14/2153236/russia-imposes-24-hour-mobile-internet-blackout-for-travelers-returning-home
- Source link: https://therecord.media/russia-24-hour-traveler-mobile-internet-blackouts-ukraine-drones
> Russian telecom operators have [1]begun cutting mobile internet access for 24 hours for citizens returning to the country from abroad, in what officials say is an effort to prevent Ukrainian drones from using domestic SIM cards for navigation. "When a SIM card enters Russia from abroad, the user has to confirm that it's being used by a person -- not installed in a drone," the Digital Development Ministry [2]said in a statement earlier this week.
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> Users can restore access sooner by solving a captcha or calling their operator for identification. Authorities said the temporary blackout is meant to "ensure the safety of Russian citizens" and prevent SIM cards from being embedded in "enemy drones." The new rule has led to unexpected outages for residents in border regions, whose phones can automatically connect to foreign carriers. Officials advised users to switch to manual network selection to avoid being cut off.
[1] https://therecord.media/russia-24-hour-traveler-mobile-internet-blackouts-ukraine-drones
[2] https://t.me/mintsifry/2676
If Trump hadn't won (Score:1, Troll)
Russia would be finished. Jeffrey Epstein apparently expressed concern that Vladimir Putin might have a picture of Donald Trump giving Bill Clinton a blowjob.
Now I suspect that's an amusing exaggeration but the implication is that Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president. Probably pictures of him raping one of the eight women who have credibly accused him of it when they were under the age of 14.
Now with the supreme Court basically making Trump God that's not really going to chang
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Right, Kamala Harris would have showed up KGB man Vladimir Putin.
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Oh yeah I agree that Putin is more dangerous than Kamala but it doesn't matter how dangerous he is as an individual if we just give Ukraine enough weapons then it's over for Russia they're going to have to back out.
However more and more it's looking like Putin has dirt on Trump involving the Epstein files and underaged girls. I don't mean girls who are like 17 and a half years old we're talking 12 and 13 year olds...
It's also extremely likely that Putin has pictures of trump in a variety of bizarre
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Relative to Trump, yes 1000% absolutely. Inarguable.
Re: If Trump hadn't won (Score:2)
> Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president.
Wow thatâ(TM)s a fresh scandal if I ever heard one! MAGA definitely gonna lose their mind on this!
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I'm not sure why the Internet thinks Bubba is Bill Clinton.
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So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.
Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?
Anyway, I doubt Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Although given some of the freaky shit guys at ivy League schools do in those gentlemen's clubs who the hell knows? The point of something like that would be to have pictures so that both sides could use them for mutually assured destructio
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> So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.
> Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?
What the hell is wrong with YOU? Get some mental help or something dude... your rantings are completely unhinged.
You can shoot the messenger all you want (Score:2)
But everything I said was a fact. If that makes you uncomfortable what the hell does that say about you?
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Last thing Trump needs is for someone to reveal black male porn pictures. I mean, that would be horrible.
Why (Score:2)
are Ukrainian drones trying to attack them? There must be a reason for that?
What about foreigners? (Score:2)
What about visiting foreigners who want to use their foreign SIM card? Are they just shit out of luck? Does this new rule mean foreign SIM cards won't work?
When i traveled abroad (not to Russia) a month ago, i just kept using the sim I already had, rather than getting a local one. Sounds like if I wanted to do that with Russia, I may be shit out of luck.
Last time I was in Russia, I got a local SIM card, but it was a pain in the ass. I had to get a local to get it for me and then let me use it. Now I have
Iron clad solution (Score:2)
Ukraine has no way around these security measures, not without having someone on the inside helping them...
Are you kidding me? (Score:2)
So I have my attack drones land in the forest and wait 24 hours, then swarm attack the Kremlin. Or I use a link that doesn't involve the cellular network. Or I make the thing autonomous. Or I buy Russian SIM cards and install them in the drones.
Seriously, how incompetent is the Russian government? They seriously need to lay off the vodka.
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Last time I was there, getting a SIM card was not so simple. You have to show your passport and proof of your place of registration (official residence). They're harder for foreigners to get than locals. I found it easier to get a local to get it for me than buy it myself.
Getting them in mass quantities is not a trivial matter.
Re: Are you kidding me? (Score:1)
What if this is designed to make the population fully aware of how much at the mercy of their government they are?
Easy solution (Score:2, Insightful)
Russia can withdraw from Ukraine and this wouldn’t be an issue.
Same thing happened when I returned to SF Bay Area (Score:2)
Nevermind, it was just shitty AT&T 5G coverage as usual.
fringe roaming cuts both ways unless they set the (Score:2)
fringe roaming cuts both ways unless they set the boarder zone as boarder + XX miles as an must check area
ok, no problem. (Score:2)
so the drones chill for a day.
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They also need a person that speaks Russian. ;D
Full Confidence (Score:4, Insightful)
I have full confidence that the Ukrainians can bypass this speed bump in no time at all.
It's super easy to stop the drones. Withdraw!
Re: Full Confidence (Score:4, Insightful)
Should be fairly simple Russia did offer a workaround, after all: Use two sim cards, don't permit the Russian one to contact towers outside of Russia. Fly it from outside using the other SIM.
Yes, Russia is that incompetent. Always has been.
Unless they're going to do something silly like locking out SIM cards of everybody who was out in the boonies for too long, or anybody who let their phone die without access to a charger for a while. In which case, lol, and you probably shouldn't take it into a big building either.
Though there's an even better solution to this problem: Get the fuck out of Ukraine. If you didn't want to be on the wrong side of a drone strike maybe, just maybe you shouldn't be doing special military operations just to satisfy your leader's special needs.
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it's in tfa: foreign sims have had the same restrictions for a while, and that's not the only measure.
russia has already bled out nato's military capability (barring the us openly jumping in, which is unlikely) so there's little that nato can do except covert operations, terror attacks or false flags. and ukraine is ofc screwed, but given this was never really about ukraine it probably will go on for a while after it is forced to capitulate or just collapses.
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> russia has already bled out nato's military capability (barring the us openly jumping in, which is unlikely) so there's little that nato can do except covert operations
More unhinged nonsense from a clueless clown.
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Re: Full Confidence (Score:1)
Why doesn't the free market have a nonviolent alternative to war attractive enough to Putin?
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It also assumes that the stated reason for doing it is the actual reason, which given that it's the Russian government is a coin-toss at best. It could be that it takes the FSB 24 hours to set up interception on a new SIM inside Russia, for example.