US State Department will create its great firewall

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a plan to create a "clean network" that involves a comprehensive approach to protecting the privacy of citizens and the most confidential information of companies from aggressive intruders. The document provides for a ban on Chinese applications, providers and cloud services, as well as protection of underwater communications. How the program will be implemented technically is unclear. But the idea itself is very similar to the Chinese (Great Firewall) and Russian (Cheburnet) counterparts.







Last week, the administration of US President Donald Trump unveiled a massive program of measures against the largest Chinese companies. So far, these measures have not been put into effect, and in general they are formulated very vaguely. However, they can potentially seriously harm the tech giants from the Middle Kingdom.



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It is not yet clear if this plan will be put into effect, and how it will be. The experts were divided into three camps. Some say that it will be the second "great Chinese firewall", which will strictly filter everything that is not pleasing to the Chinese authorities. Others argue that the Russian version of creating a sovereign Internet is more realistic, when there is a lot of talk and little action. Still others are sure that a fundamentally new monster will turn out that will absorb all the worst from both concepts. In the meantime, the activity of US officials testifies to a poor understanding of how the networks function, and a lack of understanding of how all this will be implemented.



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