On November 1, most of the provisions of the law on ensuring the safe and sustainable 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 what is 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 in Washington, D.C., 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 the tablet and repeatedly entering the wrong password. “Uh, this looks 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 hand over the encryption keys to the FSB. And Telegram founder 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 from the international human rights group Agora conducted a study on restrictions on Internet freedom in Russia. Based on its results, the report “Internet Freedom 2015: The Triumph of Censorship” was presented, under the authorship of the organization’s founder Pavel Chikov and the group’s analyst Damir Gainutdinov. Medusa presented a brief 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 of the Russian agency for supervision in the field of communications (Roskomnadzor). This was reported by one of the resource administrators Stanislav Kozlovsky, providing 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 ...