Roskomnadzor wants to create a “government VPN,” The Bell has discovered. This should be one unblock tool for Russian developers. They don’t like the idea themselves.

Roskomnadzor plans to create a single “state VPN” for Russian developers who lost access to foreign repositories due to the ban. This solution was proposed at a meeting with representatives of the Russian IT industry, He said The Bell has sources at two companies invited to the meeting.

The meeting in question was held on June 8. The reason for this was complaints from Russian software developers that due to blocking of VPN services, they periodically lose access to foreign development tools – in particular, the GitHub platform and repositories. linux and Python, Figma graphics editor.

Roskomnadzor was represented at the meeting by Deputy Head of the Department Oleg Terlyakov. He declined to discuss the reasons for VPN blocking, and as the main solution to the problem, suggested “creating a single VPN with a complex architecture and recommending that developers ‘pass’ through it.” “Those who really need it, from their perspective,” a source told The Bell who was present at the meeting.

This information was confirmed by another interlocutor in the IT market. “There are no details yet; government VPNs are scheduled to be discussed in detail at the next meeting,” he said.

According to The Bell’s interviewers, RKN’s proposal did not arouse enthusiasm among developers. “This will only help,” one source said. Another says: “It would be easier to deprive Russians of international development tools if everyone started using the same VPN.”

“They can easily block access from outside through it, and the idea itself seems stupid. While the whole country suffers due to the lack of normal Internet, it turns out that a class of privileged people with full access will emerge. And who will decide who deserves access and who does not?” – said The Bell’s interlocutor at one of the IT associations, who also knows the idea of ​​\u200b\u200b”state VPN”.