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Russian Bill Requires Encryption Backdoors In All Messenger Apps (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill quotes a report from The Daily Dot: A new bill in the Russian Duma, the country's lower legislative house, proposes to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps in the country so the Federal Security Service -- the successor to the KGB -- can obtain special access to all communications within the country. [Apps like WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram, all of which offer varying levels of encrypted security for messages, are specifically targeted in the "anti-terrorism" bill, according to the Russian-language media. Fines for the offending companies could reach 1 million rubles or about $15,000.] Russian Senator Elena Mizulina argued that the new bill ought to become law because, she said, teens are brainwashed in closed groups on the internet to murder police officers, a practice protected by encryption. Mizulina then went further. "Maybe we should revisit the idea of pre-filtering [messages]," she said. "We cannot look silently on this."
I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution.
So says AC... Russky's don't beat around the bush on surveillance and at least they are truthful about it. The spy bullcrap is nothing more than corporate espionage and obviously not a solution when it comes to the bottom line and now below it to the tune of almost $20 trillion. How's the GDP doing? How about them rights? Soviets got to keep their firearms through the fall of USSR and formation of Russian Federation, what did DHS just do over national security? What did Obama do with those executive orders and posturing of his administration involving the 2nd then knocks over NASA for $18B to bring in all his bomb making buddies. Enjoy the rose colored glasses there bud, it is certainly a path to the barbeques but at least it will be toasty!