FSB requires Yandex Considering Corporation Calculations of User Correlation

The Federal Security Service of Russia requires Yandex Keys for decryption of user data Yandex.Do and Yandex.Disk. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source from an IT market and an interlocutor close to the company.

The FSB sent its demand a few months ago, and Yandex has not yet fulfilled it, although the law allocates no more than 10 days to this. The company believes that the service "is too widely interpreted by the Yarovaya Law", according to which, from any service included in the register of the organizers of information distribution, the FSB may require "the information necessary for decoding accepted, transmitted, delivered and processed users' electronic messages." Yandex.Po and Yandex.Disk are included in the register of organizers of information distribution. However, according to a source from the company, the FSB requires access not only to messages in the mail, "but also allow you to analyze all the traffic from users to the Yandex services register services.

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If Yandex does not provide encryption keys, an administrative offense can draw up a protocol for it. After a re -failure to fulfill the requirement, Roskomnadzor will issue the company the order to eliminate the violations, assigning to the execution of at least 15 days. After the service, the blocking will threaten.

In April 2018, after the refusal of the creator of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, to issue the FSB, the transcript of users in Russia began to block Telegram. Durov claims that this requirement is technically impossible to fulfill.

By April 18, Roskomnadzor blocked a total of about 18 million IP addresses mainly owned by the cloud storage of Amazon, Google (on the eve of the blocking of another large platform-Digitalocean), but the messenger was available, and the number of innocent injured was growing at that time by representatives of more than 100 companies.

In May, Durov criticized the competing messenger of WhatsApp for unsafe and cooperation with the FBI, publishing the article "Why WhatsApp will never be safe." The reason for the text was the discovered possibility of hackapp hacking using a call. The attack was potentially subjected to all one and a half billion service users, there could be a company noticed in the attack of human rights activists.

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