Representatives of the Russian special services included in the International Standardization Organization (ISO) want to offer their own option for standardizing cryptography. In April, the first meeting of the ISO committee on the development of the Blockchain technology standard was held in Sydney, where Grigory Marshalko, an FSB officer, headed the Russian delegation of four people. This was announced by a member of ISO and deputy chief of the Infotex laboratory Maxim Shevchenko.

Wikipedia introduced the results of a study of Internet-subjects among users age from 13 to 49 years from countries with a high level of Wiki resources. Since the Wikimedia movement intends to determine his vision of further work for the next fifteen years, he had to conduct a study among his readers in countries with the highest level of awareness of Wikipedia.

The draft law on the strict regulation of traffic metabolism and the creation of the national system of root servers DNS on the territory of Russia caused a stormy discussion in the IT industry. After a series of laws adopted this summer, the authorities turn to the next stage to the next stage - the creation of the legislative framework for the artificial isolation of the Russian network segment by the Chinese example for the purpose of its “security”.

“We are disgusted by what neo-Nazis and racists do, but we cannot create secure tools for journalists and human rights activists and at the same time control them,” the Tor Project explains its decision.