[LJ] The servers are in Russia, political purge of accounts alleged
From http://dolboeb.livejournal.com/3078638.html :
http://www.viewdns.info/iplocation/?ip=81.19.74.8
IP Location Results for 81.19.74.8
==============
City: Moscow
Zip Code: 101194
Region Code: MOW
Region Name: Moscow
Country Code: RU
Country Name: Russia
Latitude: 55.7485
Longitude: 37.6184
GMT Offset: DST Offset:
NOTE: That's not what I get when I traceroute livejournal.com from viewdns.info; I'm getting a server allegedly in San Francisco.
However, it is what I get when I traceroute mail.livejournal.com
http://www.viewdns.info/traceroute/?domain=mail.livejournal.com
Traceroute Results for mail.livejournal.com
==============
traceroute to mail.livejournal.com (81.19.74.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 obfuscated.internal.network.com (0.0.0.0) 0.000 ms 0.000 ms 0.000 ms
2 obfuscated.internal.network.com (0.0.0.0) 1.000 ms 1.000 ms 1.000 ms
3 cr2.iad1.inforelay.net (66.231.176.106) 9.022 ms 9.522 ms 9.976 ms
4 irb-1105.cr1.iad4.inforelay.net (66.231.179.86) 11.873 ms 10.476 ms 10.946 ms
5 irb-1903.cr2.iad4.inforelay.net (69.169.93.250) 11.388 ms 8.230 ms 7.148 ms
6 irb-1906.cr1.iad3.inforelay.net (69.169.95.198) 12.262 ms 9.659 ms 8.419 ms
7 xe-0-6-0-1.r06.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (128.242.179.169) 10.384 ms 8.803 ms 10.230 ms
8 ae-2.r22.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.120) 13.250 ms 14.564 ms 15.525 ms
9 ae-8.r20.frnkge04.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.97) 93.874 ms 98.797 ms 96.862 ms
10 ae-2.r02.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.218) 101.424 ms 100.240 ms 99.503 ms
11 83.231.214.25 (83.231.214.25) 100.849 ms 97.941 ms 96.660 ms
12 ae5-10.RT.M9R.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.232.189) 131.929 ms 130.275 ms 131.736 ms
13 GW-Rambler.retn.net (87.245.255.34) 133.086 ms 133.933 ms 134.887 ms
14 ae0-811.j-mx240-0.kr.ramtel.ru (81.19.64.93) 138.209 ms 140.299 ms 135.748 ms
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(I swear, when I saw the schedule for the latest "scheduled" outage on 12/21, I thought, "Huh. They're shutting down LJ during prime-time EST and PST. Are they finally moving the servers to Russia, or has the Anglophone side of LJ become so irrelevant, they just don't care about the American market anymore?")
This is bad. Since LiveJournal is now physically hosted on the territory of Russia, all the confidential information of service users is available for domestic security services in real time, in accordance with the requirements of SORM SORM-2 and-3 to the Russian sites.
(Translation complements Google Translate.)
The same user also reports that journals are being "blocked", but the journals on his list I checked are resolving fine for me. Can anyone clarify if he is wrong, or if it's some sort of localize effect, or a mistranslation?
Meanwhile, an anon on fail-fandomanon.dw writes: Looks like there's mass migration from LJ, what with LJ now being hosted in Moscow.
From dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt :
newbyday 2016-12-17 209
newbyday 2016-12-18 369
newbyday 2016-12-19 191
newbyday 2016-12-20 254
newbyday 2016-12-21 200
newbyday 2016-12-22 353
newbyday 2016-12-23 7386
newbyday 2016-12-24 23091
newbyday 2016-12-25 18689
In the replies, another anon writes: The first thing they did after the move was to delete many popular pro-Ukraine blogs. No "journal suspended" message even, blogs simply disappeared.
Can anyone confirm that journals were disappeared, and if so that they were pro-Ukraine?
http://www.viewdns.info/iplocation/?ip=81.19.74.8
IP Location Results for 81.19.74.8
==============
City: Moscow
Zip Code: 101194
Region Code: MOW
Region Name: Moscow
Country Code: RU
Country Name: Russia
Latitude: 55.7485
Longitude: 37.6184
GMT Offset: DST Offset:
NOTE: That's not what I get when I traceroute livejournal.com from viewdns.info; I'm getting a server allegedly in San Francisco.
However, it is what I get when I traceroute mail.livejournal.com
http://www.viewdns.info/traceroute/?domain=mail.livejournal.com
Traceroute Results for mail.livejournal.com
==============
traceroute to mail.livejournal.com (81.19.74.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 obfuscated.internal.network.com (0.0.0.0) 0.000 ms 0.000 ms 0.000 ms
2 obfuscated.internal.network.com (0.0.0.0) 1.000 ms 1.000 ms 1.000 ms
3 cr2.iad1.inforelay.net (66.231.176.106) 9.022 ms 9.522 ms 9.976 ms
4 irb-1105.cr1.iad4.inforelay.net (66.231.179.86) 11.873 ms 10.476 ms 10.946 ms
5 irb-1903.cr2.iad4.inforelay.net (69.169.93.250) 11.388 ms 8.230 ms 7.148 ms
6 irb-1906.cr1.iad3.inforelay.net (69.169.95.198) 12.262 ms 9.659 ms 8.419 ms
7 xe-0-6-0-1.r06.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (128.242.179.169) 10.384 ms 8.803 ms 10.230 ms
8 ae-2.r22.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.120) 13.250 ms 14.564 ms 15.525 ms
9 ae-8.r20.frnkge04.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.97) 93.874 ms 98.797 ms 96.862 ms
10 ae-2.r02.frnkge03.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.218) 101.424 ms 100.240 ms 99.503 ms
11 83.231.214.25 (83.231.214.25) 100.849 ms 97.941 ms 96.660 ms
12 ae5-10.RT.M9R.MSK.RU.retn.net (87.245.232.189) 131.929 ms 130.275 ms 131.736 ms
13 GW-Rambler.retn.net (87.245.255.34) 133.086 ms 133.933 ms 134.887 ms
14 ae0-811.j-mx240-0.kr.ramtel.ru (81.19.64.93) 138.209 ms 140.299 ms 135.748 ms
15 * * *
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20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *
(I swear, when I saw the schedule for the latest "scheduled" outage on 12/21, I thought, "Huh. They're shutting down LJ during prime-time EST and PST. Are they finally moving the servers to Russia, or has the Anglophone side of LJ become so irrelevant, they just don't care about the American market anymore?")
This is bad. Since LiveJournal is now physically hosted on the territory of Russia, all the confidential information of service users is available for domestic security services in real time, in accordance with the requirements of SORM SORM-2 and-3 to the Russian sites.
(Translation complements Google Translate.)
The same user also reports that journals are being "blocked", but the journals on his list I checked are resolving fine for me. Can anyone clarify if he is wrong, or if it's some sort of localize effect, or a mistranslation?
Meanwhile, an anon on fail-fandomanon.dw writes: Looks like there's mass migration from LJ, what with LJ now being hosted in Moscow.
From dreamwidth.org/stats/stats.txt :
newbyday 2016-12-17 209
newbyday 2016-12-18 369
newbyday 2016-12-19 191
newbyday 2016-12-20 254
newbyday 2016-12-21 200
newbyday 2016-12-22 353
newbyday 2016-12-23 7386
newbyday 2016-12-24 23091
newbyday 2016-12-25 18689
In the replies, another anon writes: The first thing they did after the move was to delete many popular pro-Ukraine blogs. No "journal suspended" message even, blogs simply disappeared.
Can anyone confirm that journals were disappeared, and if so that they were pro-Ukraine?