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2016-07-29 11:37:43+00:00
✳️ RUSSIA | PRIVACY ✳️
Russia now collecting encryption keys to decode information from Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram
The notice on the FSB website simply declares that in order to ensure public safety and protect against terrorism, the FSB has found a "procedure of providing the FSB with a method necessary for decoding all received, sent, delivered, and chat conversations between users on messaging networks" and that this method had been sent to the Ministry of Justice to approve and make provisions to amend federal law.
So we have no idea how the FSB will be able to gain backdoor access to internet companies without their permission, which would surely be illegal in the companies' countries of origin, which are certainly not Russia. What is interesting is that the Daily Dot reports that the likes of Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber have not commented at all on the new law.
Full article at ibtimes.co.uk
#russia #privacy #encryption
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2016-07-25 17:49:15+00:00
Durov's response to conspiracy theories [2]
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2016-07-25 17:49:08+00:00
Durov's response to conspiracy theories [1]
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2016-07-25 17:49:03+00:00
Official Telegram Messenger for MacOS logs every pasted message to syslog, even in secret chats.
Durov answer: This is NOT Telegram's fault (telegram.me/geekschannel/425)