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| 04 Jul 23 00:05:45 |
From: lessgovt@gmail.com Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain By Aaron Krolik, Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano, July 3, 2023, NY Times [ . . . ] “It’s made people very paranoid, because if you communicate with anyone in Russia, you can’t be sure whether it’s secure or not. They are monitoring traffic very actively,” said Alena Popova, a Russian opposition political figure and digital rights activist. “It used to be only for activists. Now they have expanded it to anyone who disagrees with the war.” The effort has fed the coffers of a constellation of relatively unknown Russian technology firms. Many are owned by Citadel Group, a business once partially controlled by Alisher Usmanov, who was a target of European Union sanctions as one of Putin’s favorite oligarchs.” Some of the companies are trying to expand overseas, raising the risk that the technologies do not remain inside Russia. [ . . . ] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/technology/russia-ukraine-sur eillance-tech.html --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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