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FSB demanded encryption keys to user data from Yandex

1 points by app4soft 7y ago

ColinWright 7y ago
Courtesy of Google Translate: FSB demanded encryption keys for user correspondence from Yandex. The FSB has requested the Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk encryption keys, but the company refuses to send them: the keys can give access to passwords for users of the entire Yandex ecosystem. For a similar failure, Telegram was previously blocked. Several months ago, the FSB sent a request to Yandex to provide keys for decrypting data from users of the Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk services, told RBC a source in the IT market and a source close to Yandex. Both interlocutors of RBC claim that over the past time, Yandex has not provided keys to the special service, although according to the law, no more than ten days are given to this. Previously, due to the refusal to share keys in Russia, the Telegram messenger was blocked by a court decision. Why “Yandex” is not ready to transfer the keys and how it will turn out for the company, RBC understood. Why the FSB demanded keys from “Yandex” Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk are located in the register of information dissemination organizers (ORIs), that is, Internet sites where users can exchange messages. According to the so-called law of Spring, from July 20, 2016, the Center for Operational and Technical Events of the FSB may require any service from the ORI registry to transmit to it “the information necessary to decode received, transmitted, delivered and (or) processed electronic messages of Internet users”. The FSB did not respond to a request from RBC. In the case of Telegram, which was blocked in April 2018, law enforcement agencies wanted to get the keys to decipher the correspondence of users who were suspected of organizing terrorist acts in the St. Petersburg metro. In turn, Telegram founder Pavel Durov refused to transmit information, motivating it with privacy protection and privacy policy.
- app4soft 7y ago
  > According to the so-called law of Spring,.. Correct translation should be: "According to the so-called Yarovaya law,.."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law

1 points by app4soft 7y ago

Courtesy of Google Translate: FSB demanded encryption keys for user correspondence from Yandex. The FSB has requested the Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk encryption keys, but the company refuses to send them: the keys can give access to passwords for users of the entire Yandex ecosystem. For a similar failure, Telegram was previously blocked. Several months ago, the FSB sent a request to Yandex to provide keys for decrypting data from users of the Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk services, told RBC a source in the IT market and a source close to Yandex. Both interlocutors of RBC claim that over the past time, Yandex has not provided keys to the special service, although according to the law, no more than ten days are given to this. Previously, due to the refusal to share keys in Russia, the Telegram messenger was blocked by a court decision. Why “Yandex” is not ready to transfer the keys and how it will turn out for the company, RBC understood. Why the FSB demanded keys from “Yandex” Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk are located in the register of information dissemination organizers (ORIs), that is, Internet sites where users can exchange messages. According to the so-called law of Spring, from July 20, 2016, the Center for Operational and Technical Events of the FSB may require any service from the ORI registry to transmit to it “the information necessary to decode received, transmitted, delivered and (or) processed electronic messages of Internet users”. The FSB did not respond to a request from RBC. In the case of Telegram, which was blocked in April 2018, law enforcement agencies wanted to get the keys to decipher the correspondence of users who were suspected of organizing terrorist acts in the St. Petersburg metro. In turn, Telegram founder Pavel Durov refused to transmit information, motivating it with privacy protection and privacy policy.

app4soft 7y ago
> According to the so-called law of Spring,.. Correct translation should be: "According to the so-called Yarovaya law,.."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarovaya_law