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For some, Pavel Durov is a hero. A fighter for freedom and privacy on Internet. Ors consider him to be einenSelbstdarsteller and Egomaniacs, who is only concerned about ir own interests. DieMeinungen also go apart in Durows homeland Russia. Neverless, SchautRusslands Internet community has been fascinated for days on cat-and-mouse game that 33-year-old founder of Messengers Telegram delivers with Russian Staatund of media Authority Roskomnadsor.
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For days Roskomnadsor tried to increase telegram in Russia from network. A court ruling last week had granted dieErlaubnis to authority. Previously, telegram and Durov had refused to hand over secret keys to domestic intelligence FSB, which would duty to intercept encrypted communication between telegram users and users. Supporters of Durov, who lives abroad, sent DemFSB boss instead two real keys – with best regards.
Up to 18 million IP addresses blocked
Initially, Russian ISPs blocked DieIP addresses of telegram servers at beginning of week. As a result, many users resigned to proxy and VPN services to disguise ir origin and thus circumvent lock. Telegram itself also directed communication via foreign relays. Durov wrote during week that re was no significant decrease DerAktivität on messenger: “I thank Euchrussischen Telegram users füreure support and loyalty. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, that Ihreuch have not participated in political censorship. ” Gleichzeitigkündigte Bitcoinin to invest in development of furr VPN services.
In next step, Roskomnadsor extended locks to over 18 MillionenIP addresses. But instead of telegram, it met a hundred specialist unbeteiligteWebsites and companies that had hosted ir offerings on same servers as DerChatdienst. In Google or Amazon data centers. So wurdeunter or short-term website of Kremlin Museum paralyzed, Rabattkartensystemeeiner supermarket chain suddenly stopped working, and numerous apps wurdeneingeschränkt.
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Meanwhile, even Vladimir Putin’s Internet consultant German Klimenkoeingestehen: “It would probably make sense to apologize for unvorsichtigeVorgehen in blockade of telegram,” he said on Monday television channel NTW. The temporary conclusion: instead of a blockade, RussischenStaat has so far only a disgrace.
Russia expands internet censorship
But as much as Russian network community mocks, it is about more than substantiate feud of an internet entrepreneur with a ossified authority that has overestimated ihreKapazitäten. For years already, Russia has been schränkenin new laws for freedom of information on Internet. Sohat Roskomnadsor has since 2013 right to block websites that presumably disseminate “ExtremistischeInformationen”. So, after two warnings, media can already lose license. Since n, more and more smaller, oppositional news portals such as grani.ru have been banned.
Through Sorm monitoring program, network operators in Russlandjederzeit can send metadata on internet to FSB secret service. A WeitereGesetzesänderung in year 2015 also obligated companies to store data Ihrerrussischen customers on domestic servers. The LinkedIn career Network is refore not callable in Russia, because customer data are all stored on ausländischenServern. And almost two years ago, Parliament adopted a whole package of terrorist laws, including Messenger Dazuverpflichten, its encryption mechanisms at request of FSBherauszugeben.
Telegram was already in sights of authorities last year. Sieforderten, Telegram should be registered in “Register of Processors” and later occupied company registered in London MitGeldstrafen. Kremlnahe politicians argued that service allows terrorists to communicate unmolested with SeinerVerschlüsselung. “The FSB has repeatedly provided us Beweisezur that terrorists and extremists use this Messengerfür ir communication,” said Roskomnadsor-head Alexander Scharowin, an interview of newspaper Iswestija.So supposed suicide bomber, who Last April in subway of St. Petersburg a bomb lit, via Telegram Gechattethaben. The rhetoric in Russia is similar to that of or governments who want backdoors for encrypted communication.
