PJ🇨🇦🥃⌨️🌏🇺🇦🇹🇼Jul 3, 2023
Kevin Rothrock

Russia is “incubating a cottage industry” of tech contractors & “new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war.” And the tech may be sold overseas. “A Swiss-army knife of spying possibilities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/technology/russia-ukraine-surveillance-tech.html

NYT describes spying software that affects Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp, not intercepting calls but accessing metadata to determine things like identity, devices, mapped relationships, etc.

Developers include firms like MFI Soft, Vas Experts, and Protei, which got started making pieces of Russia’s telecom wiretapping system.

Russia Seeds New Surveillance Tech to Squash Ukraine War Dissent

Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. The tech may also be sold overseas.

The New York Times
Jul 3, 2023 at 5:49pmWeb
Show threadAli Van ZeeJul 3, 2023
@kevinrothrock grrrr … I use WhatsApp to keep in contact with a friend in Sumy … so now, they can access locations??
Show threadKevin RothrockJul 3, 2023
@Alikat747 You just told everyone he’s in Sumy!! :)
Show threadAli Van ZeeJul 4, 2023
@kevinrothrock 😱
Show threadJohn BreenJul 3, 2023
@kevinrothrock I miss the old days when Russian software engineers were my peers instead of my threat model. There were a few years...