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⛔️ FSB asked to check Telegram messenger for terrorist propaganda ⛔️

Lawmaker Alexander Ageyev (A Just Russia) has asked the Federal Security Service (FSB) chief, Alexander Bortnikov, to check the Telegram internet messaging service which is allegedly used by the Islamic State militants

http://www.rapsinews.com/news/20151116/274926706.html

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✳️ NEWS | Censorship ✳️


“You Might As Well Ban Words”
Pavel Durov on Russia’s Proposal to Block Telegram

http://telegramgeeks.com/2015/11/you-might-as-well-ban-words-pavel-durov-on-russias-proposal-to-block-telegram/

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✳️ 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

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We strongly recommend russian users to use a VPN and/or proxy service to mask their real IP. With that trick you will be able to use Telegram.

There are many free VPNs over there, our favourites are:

— Proton VPN

— Opera browser default VPN

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Roskomnadzor (Russia's telecommunications watchdog) bans 4 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

— Russia is blocking Amazon and google subnets in an attempt to restrict Telegram messenger access.

— The move to ban these IP blocks is a response to Telegram moving some of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud servers over the weekend.

— Roskomnadzor banned the Telegram instant messaging client inside Russia's border on Friday, April 13, after Telegram refused to hand over customers' encryption keys to the FSB, Russia's main intelligence service.

— By moving servers to Amazon and Google servers, Telegram was able to skirt the initial ban and provide service to Russian users over the weekend.

— Many users ridiculed Roskomnadzor's decision on social media, and for good reasons, as the move to mass-ban so many IP addresses had secondary repercussions, as it also blocked many legitimate web services. Users reported many online games, mobile apps, and cryptocurrency services going dark over the course of the day.

🌐 Source

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📅 April 13:

The Court of Moscow decided to block Telegram on the territory of Russia.

📅 April 16:

Russia banned over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google's cloud infrastructure.

52.58.0.0/15  -AMAZON-
18.196.0.0/15 -AMAZON-
18.194.0.0/15 -AMAZON-
18.184.0.0/15 -AMAZON-
35.156.0.0/14 -GOOGLE-
35.192.0.0/12 -GOOGLE-

📅 April 17:

Russia just blocked another 2 million IP addresses. 1 million from Amazon’s subnet and another 1 million from Google’s subnet.

54.160.0.0/12 -AMAZON-
35.208.0.0/12 -GOOGLE-

Overall, 4 million IP addresses were banned to stop 1 messenger that still works just fine. 😎

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Pavel Durov just posted this words on VK:

Thank you for your support and dedication – together we managed to survive the first 24 hours of blocking.

As shown last night, in their war, authorities of Russia are ready to block millions of IP addresses of cloud hosting, regardless of losses of foreign projects.

In addition, the Russian authorities are struggling with independent services of proxy/VPN. Many of which no longer work (if this occurs, disable the proxy settings in Telegram and try to find another).

Although the Russian market is a substantial fraction of the user base of Telegram, it is important to us for personal reasons.

Digital Resistance is a decentralized movement to protect digital freedom and progress – I started to pay bitcoin to the administrators of the proxies and vpns. In the course of this year I will be happy to sacrifice millions for that purpose. I encourage everyone to join and participate – setting up a proxy/vpn servers or donating to them.

🌐 Source: VK

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