On November 1, most of the provisions of the law on ensuring the safe and stable functioning of the Russian segment of the Internet, the so-called law on the “sovereign Runet”, came into force in Russia. Radio Liberty writes about this. The document obliges Internet providers to install provided by Roskomnadzor on…
Recently, the number of calls from bots or real people offering some kind of goods and services, conducting surveys, or being part of a fraudulent scheme has increased markedly. According to the Federal Communications Commission, about 2,4 billion such calls are made to the United States every month, that's ...
Evan Osnos, a journalist based in Washington DC, discovered that his iPad had been locked for 25 million minutes - or nearly half a century. Evan's three-year-old son did this by trying to use a tablet and repeatedly entering the wrong password. “Uh, it looks like a fake, but ...
On April 13, the Tagansky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Roskomnadzor to block the Telegram manager in Russia due to the social network's refusal to transfer encryption keys to the FSB. And the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, said that he would pay "millions of dollars" from his personal funds to support proxy services and ...
The shocking news about the ban on Russian social networks in Ukraine, as well as the blocking of Yandex, 1C and Mail.RU made me think about how to bypass the blocking of VK, Odnoklassniki and all of the above sites. Some sites that fell under the ban, for example, VKontakte, immediately sent out instructions to users, ...
The United States has no right to force Apple Inc to unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York, a federal judge in Brooklyn decided on Monday, ahead of a congressional hearing to demand another court to order the company to issue the FBI with a password for mobile phone data ...
Lawyers of the international human rights group Agora conducted a study on restricting Internet freedom in Russia. As a result, the report “Freedom of the Internet 2015: the triumph of censorship” was presented, written by the founder of the organization Pavel Chikov and the group's analyst Damir Gainutdinov. Medusa presented a short retelling of the report ...
Roskomnadzor sent an order to telecom operators: to block the page of the video service Yahoo, where the film of the Islamic State terrorist group is posted. According to the representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky, the department has sent eight notifications to Yahoo since last year about the need to remove the film "Flame of War", which is included in a single ...
The Wikipedia article with the meanings of the word Charas has been excluded from the unified list of prohibited information by the Russian communications oversight agency (Roskomnadzor). This was announced by one of the administrators of the resource Stanislav Kozlovsky, who provided a scanned notification of the department. This was later confirmed by Roskomnadzor itself. “The decision of the Chernoyarsk court ...
In Russia, the site with the course of a young bribe-giver was banned. This was reported on the official website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The corresponding decision was made by the Dmitrovsky City Court of the Moscow Region. Site visitors were asked to learn how to “pay a bribe correctly”. In court, such councils were considered propaganda of corruption, after which ...