The ban may concern the WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram messaging services, as well as Skype and Gmail.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had sent secret information from her private, unprotected email. The problem of government officials using non-state communication tools for work correspondence is not limited to Russia: In 2015 the whole world found out that former U.S. The group has regularly posted work correspondence belonging to influential state officials, including Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and sold large quantities for bitcoins.įor their work correspondence the victims of the Shaltai leaks used both Russian (one of Medvedev's mail boxes was Yandex) and foreign mail and communication services, but now the authorities have decided – for reasons of national security, they insist – to fight against the latter. In Russia for the last three years officials have been continuously spooked by the Shaltai-Boltai hacking group (also known as Anonymous International).
On May 30 the Communications Ministry sent a bill to Russian President Vladimir Putin proposing to ban officials and servicemen from using foreign mobile apps for their work correspondence. Russian deputies, ministers and members of the armed forces may soon find they are unable to use popular instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Viber for work purposes.
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