India to Collect User Data from VPNs, Data Centers, and Cloud Service Providers

By Deeba Ahmed
The Indian government recently passed a new law that mandates all internet service providers to collect and store…
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Leak of Russian Censorship Data

The transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released 800GB of data from Roskomnadzor, the Russian government censorship organization.

Specifically, Distributed Denial of Secrets says the data comes from the Roskomnadzor of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Republic of Bashkortostan is in the west of the country.

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The data is split into two main categories: a series of over 360,000 files totalling in at 526.9GB and which date up to as recently as March 5, and then two databases that are 290.6GB in size, according to Distributed Denial of Secrets’ website…

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How Putin’s Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech

The Washington Post shares a story that hasn’t been previously disclosed. “Russian agents came to the home of Google’s top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian Preside… Continue reading How Putin’s Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech

‘The Kremlin is Lying’, Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers

“People around the world are using a new website to circumvent the Kremlin’s propaganda machine by sending individual messages about the war in Ukraine to random people in Russia,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Can Tor bridges really prevent ISPs from knowing the fact that you are using Tor?

Using Tor bridges for censorship circumvention routes your traffic to a bridge before an entry node. If the IP of the bridge is constant, isn’t it abnormal that you are always connecting to the same IP and thus allow an ISP to know that yo… Continue reading Can Tor bridges really prevent ISPs from knowing the fact that you are using Tor?

Anonymous Hacks Russian Media Censoring Agency Roskomnadzor

By Waqas
The announcement of the hack came from Emma Best of DDoSecrets who confirmed that an affiliate of Anonymous…
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