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I just leave a couple of excerpts for everyone to understand the level of competence up there. > After signing controversial anti-terrorist legislation earlier

I just leave a couple of excerpts for everyone to understand the level of competence up there. > After signing controversial anti-terrorist legislation earlier today, President Putin ordered the Federal Security Service (the FSB, the post-Soviet successor to the KGB) to produce encryption keys to decrypt all data on the Internet. According to the executive order, the FSB has two weeks to do it. Responsibility for carrying out Putin's instructions falls on Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB. https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-sec... > Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at a media forum in St. Petersburg that the Internet is a “CIA project” that is “still developing as such,” the Associated Press reports. http://time.com/75484/putin-the-internet-is-a-cia-project/ http://time.com/75484/putin-the-internet-is-a-cia-project/

lordnacho 10y ago
>...to produce encryption keys to decrypt all data on the Internet. According to the executive order, the FSB has two weeks to do it. Maybe they'll offer $1K for someone who comes up with the solution. Saves the FSB having to put a staffer on it.
onion2k 10y ago
While that makes it sound like the Russian government are planning to crack all the encrypted traffic on the internet in two weeks, that's not what they're saying. They've built a website that enables companies to easily voluntarily hand over their private keys - companies that don't will be fined, and presumably blocked at a state level if they refuse long term. http://news.softpedia.com/news/russia-finalizes-procedures-for-collecting-encryption-keys-506742.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/russia-finalizes-procedures-f...
Dolores12 10y ago
So what's wrong with competence here? Or you just know better than Putin? :) Snowden revelations showed up that internet have been used as a tool to collect intelligence about foreign and domestic citizen by USA agencies. You can refresh your memory here [1]. Also, meduza.io is not a credible source as i have noted few times in my comments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations

lordnacho 10y ago

>...to produce encryption keys to decrypt all data on the Internet. According to the executive order, the FSB has two weeks to do it. Maybe they'll offer $1K for someone who comes up with the solution. Saves the FSB having to put a staffer on it.

onion2k 10y ago

While that makes it sound like the Russian government are planning to crack all the encrypted traffic on the internet in two weeks, that's not what they're saying. They've built a website that enables companies to easily voluntarily hand over their private keys - companies that don't will be fined, and presumably blocked at a state level if they refuse long term. http://news.softpedia.com/news/russia-finalizes-procedures-for-collecting-encryption-keys-506742.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/russia-finalizes-procedures-f...

Dolores12 10y ago

So what's wrong with competence here? Or you just know better than Putin? :) Snowden revelations showed up that internet have been used as a tool to collect intelligence about foreign and domestic citizen by USA agencies. You can refresh your memory here [1]. Also, meduza.io is not a credible source as i have noted few times in my comments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations