On Mar 6, 2022, at 11:28 PM, Anton Baskov ab@antonbaskov.ru wrote:

Don't worry! It means that information resources owned by executive authorities that were not previously included in the list of essential services (critical infrastructure) must comply with minimum hygiene rules like using local hosting providers, use domain in the ru. zone (if possible), remove js scripts located on foreign resources, like google analytics, and so on. As for propaganda – change the meaning a little, add false conclusions and a harmless document takes appearance of the universal evil.

Thank you, Anton and those who replied to me privately!

Yeah, I’d done a machine translation, and it didn’t appear to match what the tweet implied it said at all, so I really appreciate the education. It sounds very much like the US government program called “Einstein” that has, for _eighteen years_ been unsuccessfully trying to get the operators of US federal government networks to document and harmonize their practices and meet minimum security standards.

If I had responsibility for enacting such a program in the Russian government, I’d certainly take this opportunity to remind everyone of it, too. :-)

-Bill