[governance] Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi

[Barry Shein]

From: Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
>Does anyone else have an opinion on this issue? Norbert and Chaitanya offer
>very different perspectives.

Perhaps Putin is trying to win some international love by cracking
down on the spam/phish gangs?

Ok, silly optimism.

I wonder how effective an infrastructure Russia has to make use of
such IDs? It's a lot of transactions running through coffee shops etc.

Or maybe the idea is really to consolidate the wi-fi hot spot industry
so only those with "sufficient" identification infrastructure can be
in this business which likely means PTTs and similar and not just ad
hoc wi-fi hotspots. All you need technically is a general purpose
internet connection and a ~US$25 wi-fi box (access point.)

P.S. In my experience criminals are very good at obtaining false id
documents. But it might discourage novices.

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