Post -beers and crypto squeezers

How Roskomnadzor fights Startmail, and the American authorities with Pavel Durov

Now in the information space in parallel, two plot close to the pathos formed. In one - the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suits Telegram Group Inc. and Ton Issuer Inc., Responsible for the pre -sale of GRAM token serving the Telegram Open Network (Ton) network. In another, the Russian Roskomnadzor, at the request of the FSB, blocked the postmail mail service.

It is obvious that the vector of power demarchens coincides: world governments intensify the fight against new technologies (information and financial). But what the details vary!

Consider the American case. The companies of the Durov brothers are not in American jurisdiction, so the reason for filing a SEC lawsuit was one single circumstance: the participation of US citizens in the preliminary sale of the rights to own GRAM tokens at preferential prices. Having not been among the early investors of American citizens, there would be no lawsuit.

However, American citizens were. In total, Telegram sold the rights to own 2.9 billion Gram 171 tokens to the investor, of which 39 with American citizenship (or legal entity - with American registration) acquired more than 1 billion tokens.

The formal reason for the claims was observed, and the SEC gave the command "FAS!" to your lawyers. Those prepared a lawsuit in the court of the Southern District of New York. If you read the text of the lawsuit, you can see that the pathos of the accusations is not around American citizens, but around the very essence of the project:

SEC accuses Durov’s company of issue of securities without proper registration. That is, SEC believes that the very fact of this issue is a crime.

Crime against what? Against American legislation. On what basis? And because among investors there are American citizens and legal entities. The fact that two -thirds of Ton investors (GRAM) are not Americans and are not obliged to obey American law, the SEC is not worried.

The last phrase is the most interesting: why, in fact, does not worry? Because the SEC acts impudently and from the position of power, because it realizes: American money, banks, rating agencies, exchanges, insurance companies and courts are the center of the modern and political life of the planet. Everything is tied to them, everything around them is spinning. Not a single company of the world would occur to a quarrel with the United States in the person of SEC, this is tantamount to suicide. And if so, it is not a sin to use the status of the CVO so favorable and wrap the situation for your benefit.

It is pleasant, of course, to play muscles in sight of the entire planet, to once again show who is the master in the world, and where the homeland of Kuzkina Mother is actually located.

But these are all emotions, a bargaining coin, which in a dry remnant comes down to the same way - to extract material benefits. Tity Miti. For the sake of them, everything only starts.

SEC Drances of the Duorov company is not in order to ban Ton (GRAM), especially - blockchain and other cryptotechnologies. And to knock out a solid kush from Durov's companies. So everything is mundane and without taste. But effective.

If you look at the SEC track record in the fight against crypto projects (EOS, KIK, Arisebank, BitConnect, etc.), you will see how the American department is selectively working, constantly manipulating the whip or carrot. One (like EOS) is prescribed symbolic fines, others (like kik) are extinguished in black.

The punishment measure is directly related to the origin of the project (based on the principle: “Is this our son of a son?”), However, the essence does not change under any circumstances: SEC goes hunting in order to earn money.

Now consider the case with the blocking of Roskomnadzor of the postmail mail service. The fact that the blocking was carried out not by court decision, but at the request of the FSB, we will not consider for a number of circumstances. Firstly, they did not adopt special laws in order to legitimize such locks. Secondly, if it were necessary, the court decision appeared in 15 minutes. But it is not necessary, so there is nothing to talk about.

What is then the essence of the issue? The fact that there is in nature a certain character, which it seems to be even calculated - up to the descriptive structure "Kyivian Sergey". Outside of this design, alas, it is not possible to advance in research. And this villain was sick of Russian institutions to indecent: he sent 180 messages about mining to the courts. Then he switched the flow of threats to shopping centers, kindergartens and schools.

As a result, more than a million people had to evacuate in Moscow only.

The reason for telephone terrorism was the “Kidok”, which “Kiev -Kyoko” caught the WEX cryptocurrency exchange from the cryptocurrency exchange, which froze it with 120 bitcoins ($ 1 million at an exchange rate of this morning). At first, the telephone terrorist demanded that he return this amount, then raised the rate to 10 thousand bitcoins.

The situation is outrageous and, of course, there is nothing to discuss here. Question: How to deal with her? Ideally, find “Kyivian Sergey”. How can you find it? Either through crypto -neadres, or through communication channels.

The first path is hopeless because no one knows the Bitcoin address of the telephone terrorist, because for obvious reasons, no one paid him. The conjecture of the “Kievanian Sergey” itself is sucked out of the finger: there is simply an unknown resident of Kyiv on the accounts of the WEX crypto accounts (apparently, it was apparently not even according to the IP address, but according to the information that the account owner voluntarily left on the exchange during registration), which was frozen for 120 bitcoins. But what if this “Seryoga” took this amount from the ceiling? The guys with WEX 1 bitcoin stole his guys, or less, and the poor fellow touched his head from grief, and now it requires 120 times more to cover the costs of haloperidol?

The second channel is more promising, but almost also hopeless, because the Kiev Seryoga used an anonymous postmail postmail! And on it the whole correspondence is like the ends in the water.

And it turns out that they cannot calculate the terrorist. What do you order to do in this case? Of course, I would suggest with my low bell tower to intensively engage in a psycholinguistic analysis of messages from the threats of public executions. I almost have no doubt that someone has been doing this somewhere in the FSB’s subsoil, however, practical results have not yet been clearly obtained, because after the next call / letter of each patient, the authorities meekly begin evacuation. And thank God that this is how they act! It would be much worse if they had not reacted in any way.

And here the moment of truth comes. In a path situation, when it is not possible to solve the problem, and higher instances require a report on the results achieved, a “wise solution” is made - to block the post -mail postmail.

This is approximately, as if a flower pot fell on the head of the city on a lively street in the city center in the city center, and the municipal authorities closed the local pottery shop in revenge.

Thank you, at least clay careers did not eliminate.

At the same time, Roskomnadzor is well aware that the pottery workshop is clearly not in business: “We understand that restriction of access to this postal resource will not completely block the distribution of such information by attackers, but we believe that the measures taken should complicate the implementation of such actions in the future and significantly reduce their scale.”

In other words, the organs understand, but they cannot do anything. However, it is certainly necessary to punish someone-without this it is impossible to justify himself in the eyes of a higher leadership.

The problem, however, is that the phrase “measures should complicate” the actions of the attacker “in the future” - this, as it were softer to say, is not true. Due to two important circumstances.

Firstly, in addition to Startmail, there are other anonymous services with exactly the same functionality and even better. I’ll name the first thing that comes to the mind of offhand: 5ymail, Anonymous email, anonymail, cyberatlandis, Guerillamail, Proton Mail, Torguard, Tor Mail, Tutanota and so on almost to infinity.

That is, if you think that the liquidation of a pottery workshop is the right solution to the issue, then in an adult way you need to get all the anonymous postal services. From the first to the last.

There is, however, the second reason that mosses a claim to the effectiveness of a demarche with Startmail lock. Moreover, this reason is much more significant than the first.

The only situation in which we, albeit with a stretch, but still we could talk about the effectiveness of blocking a service or portal on the Internet is the direction of the action against the mass consumer.

That is, if some kind of dangerous portal attracts millions of people for the authorities, you can try to block it in the hope that the inhabitants in the mass of their lazy and their craving for forbidden knowledge will not outweigh the efforts necessary for the installation of a simple proxy or VPN.

In the case of Telegram, unfortunately (or happiness), even this hypothesis was not confirmed, because millions used to block the messenger, and after blocking tens of millions began to use. That is, the craving for the forbidden fruit still laziness overpowers.

Suppose, however, that locks are able to block the flow of mass interest. However, in the case of the Kyiv maniac, we are not talking about mass interest! Is anonymous letters with threats of explosions and other villains send millions of people in the state authorities? It seemed to me that we were talking about one single, unique and sick with a head of a non-earned crypto-investor ...

And if so, then even stuttering about the efficiency of blocking one of the hundreds of anonymous mealers presented on the market is a non -multiplay. Because in 1000 cases out of 1000, when it comes to an attacker-lone, a fingers of cannons through a sparrow have zero efficiency and only spoils the image of the scorching.

The image does not spoil from the fact that the “damned Pindos creatures” receive another reason to mock, but from the fact that work is so poorly performed-not to solve the problem, but for unsubscribing and receiving.

And the last. Why did I compare the story of Startmail blocking with the SEC lawsuit against Ton (GRAM)? Because, I repeat, both demarchees have a common vector: anonymous finances and anonymous communications prevent modern states from cope with their tasks.

However, SEC does not simulate activities, does not try to ban technologies in general, but takes what can be realistically taken right now: money! Takes money and carries it to the budget. For the benefit of their homeland.

But the RKN acts differently: it performs meaningless actions that have not fun for a long time, but only sadden. Moreover, in a patriotic way: it is a shame for the power.