Libtech FYI In Ex-Soviet States, Russian Spy Tech Still Watches You b" BY ANDREI SOLDATOV AND IRINA BOROGAN b" 12.21.12 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/russias-hand/all/ "Manned by the countrybs main security service, the FSB, this bSystem of Operative Search Measuresb has been in use for more than two decades. But recently, SORM has been upgraded. It is ingesting new types of data. It is being used as Moscowbs main tool for spying on the countrybs political protesters. And it has become extremely useful in the quest to make sure that the Kremlinbs influence in the former Soviet Union continues long into the second regime of Vladimir Putin." A joint investigation by Agentura.Ru, CitizenLab and Privacy International. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deibert@utoronto.ca -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE