Banning Wikipedia

There are rumors that Russia’s censorship office may block Russian Wikipedia. Some Russians are making local copies of Wikipedia before it gets blocked. The 29-gigabyte file that contains the Russian-language Wikipedia was downloaded over 100,000 times during the first half of March. This was a 4,000 per cent increase compared with the first half of January. “Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned”, Slate, March 21, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/russia-wikipedia-download-kiwix.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20220322193854/https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/russia-wikipedia-download-kiwix.html

https://archive.ph/bbKet

Russia’s Cyber Attack on Ukraine

Before Russia moved its troops and tanks into Ukraine it conducted a wave of cyberattacks. Websites were hamstrung, malware infected computers, denial of service attacks took place, and communications were hampered. But the widespread digital devastation of critical infrastructure did not happen. No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously as Russia. But in the current conflict this capability seems to have not been used to its fullest extent. Are the Russians holding back? Read more in “Blue, yellow and gray zone: the cyber factor in Ukraine”, C4ISRNET, March 14, 2022.

Schiff, D-Calif., said as of Feb. 24 he hadn’t seen evidence of Russian “cyber action directed at the United States over Ukraine.”

But there “is always the risk of escalation,” he cautioned, and it is “very early in the conflict.”

https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2022/03/14/blue-yellow-and-gray-zone-the-cyber-factor-in-ukraine/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220322195539/https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2022/03/14/blue-yellow-and-gray-zone-the-cyber-factor-in-ukraine/

https://archive.ph/pyiuZ