🙏 Become a sponsor of the “First Department” - support human rights in Russia: https://youtube.com/channel/UCYmgdhQNrefLdVEVJwV335Q/joinThe British's favorite dish is fish and chips, while the Kremlin's hackers have mail and phishing. Email has long become a universal key to all accounts, and phishing helps bypass the security of an email service by attacking the weakest link: the user.

🙏 Become a sponsor of the “First Department” - support human rights in Russia: https://youtube.com/channel/UCYmgdhQNrefLdVEVJwV335Q/joinEmail is one of the oldest and most boring web technologies that most users prefer not to remember. There are instant messengers for correspondence, social networks for public swearing, and you can send files via the cloud. It would seem, who needs mail in 2024?

How to go online without leaving a trace? Is it possible to publish something while remaining anonymous? How to make your computer forget everything you did on it? All these questions are solved by the Tails operating system, which the general public learned about thanks to Edward Snowden. Tails allows you to boot on any computer from a flash drive, anonymizes your traffic using the Tor network - and then forgets everything and erases traces of your work.

Artificial intelligence is marching across the planet! Not a week goes by without the launch of a new product based on deep learning technology, which (according to the creators) will make a real revolution in its field and change the course of history. Or not - that's how it turns out. What should definitely change is our approach to protecting the data that AI product developers are desperately trying to get their hands on.

In the 1960s, the intelligence services of five English-speaking NATO countries launched a joint project to intercept satellite communications. The network of listening stations, dubbed ECHELON, would span the globe over the next three decades, becoming the focus of not only numerous conspiracy theories but also a European Parliament investigation that suspected the allies of industrial espionage.

140 million - that's how many phone numbers of Russians have leaked online this year. One for each. Data leaks regularly make headlines and become the subject of major scandals.

Pavel Durov is being persecuted in France, TON has collapsed, and the fate of Telegram is in question. Why do the French authorities want to jail the messenger's founder? What does this mean for our privacy? Can we continue using Telegram or should we urgently look for a replacement?

Roskomnadzor learned about the existence of secure messengers and decided to declare war on them. At the request of the agency, Signal, one of the most popular solutions for confidential correspondence, was blocked.

On July 27, musician, writer, and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir died in the Birobidzhan pretrial detention center after a dry hunger strike. He was arrested on charges of public calls for terrorism. The reason for this was a video that Kushnir posted on his YouTube channel, which had only five subscribers. And only after Pavel Kushnir's death did we learn what an incredible person he was.

Code red: Russian special services are massively attacking civil society. Hackers are trying to quietly gain access to emails and cloud storage of journalists, human rights activists, politicians and NGOs, as well as Belarusian and Western public figures. One of the first targets of this hacker campaign was the human rights project "First Department".

YouTube has already been blocked! Or not? In any case, watching videos using the familiar red button has become much more difficult. Perhaps, in the near future, YouTube will stop working in Russia forever, for everyone and on any device. What to do then? In today's video, we will analyze attempts to import-substitute the main video hosting service, and what came of them (spoiler: nothing good).

Roskomnadzor has a new ally in the fight against the free Internet: the App Store. Apple recently began removing VPNs from its Russian version, which users used to access blocked sites. But not all is lost, the First Department is rushing to the rescue!

In this video, we look at a recently uncovered conspiracy by the FBI involving the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate public opinion on social media. A Russian bot farm created by the FSB and Russia Today was active on Twitter, generating content and interacting with users. We take a closer look at how this system worked and what implications it may have for the future of cyber propaganda.

The world's most famous spyware strikes again! Since our previous video about Pegasus, it has managed to get involved in several new scandals - including a surveillance campaign against Russian dissidents.

Recently, the European Union tried again to pass a bill that would allow intelligence agencies to bypass end-to-end encryption in messengers and view other people's correspondence. In Russia, little was said about this topic, because European laws do not seem to apply to us. But in fact, there is reason to worry: in the modern world, many regulations, especially in the software sphere, are very quickly becoming global.