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Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools
An anonymous reader writes Three separate Russian authorities have spoken out in favor of banning online anonymizing tools since February 5th, with particular emphasis on Tor, which — despite its popularity with whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden and with online activists — Russia's Safe Internet League describes as an 'Anonymous network used primarily to commit crimes'. The three authorities involved are the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, powerful Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor and the Safe Internet League, comprising the country's top three network providers, including state telecoms provider Rostelecom. Roskomnadzor's press secretary Vadim Roskomnadzora Ampelonsky describes the obstacles to identifying and blocking Tor and VPN traffic as "difficult, but solvable."
"Vadim Roskomnadzora Ampelonsky" -- the second word is not part of the name, that's the organization name he is working for. It should be "Vadim Ampelonsky".
By law, they have to have sets of cameras on them... because there will be no other way to find who is at fault if a wreck happens.
Dashcams are a good idea. I live in America, and I have one. I bought it for $39 from Amazon. It hasn't recorded an accident yet, but I did record a robbery that occurred in front of my car in a parking lot. I emailed the video to the cops, and they said it helped them nail the guy. The victim was an Indian woman. They are often targeted by muggers because they wear a lot of solid gold jewelry.