2023-07-17 06:03:10
This decision includes banning all “Apple” products, including “iPhones” and “iPad” tablets, and other products of the American company itself, but their use for personal purposes is still permitted.
The British newspaper “Financial Times” reported that the Russian authorities prevented thousands of government employees and officials from using iPhones and Apple products because of fears of espionage.
And the Russian Ministry of Trade announced a few days ago that it would ban the use of “iPhones” for work purposes, starting from Monday.
In a similar measure, the Ministry of Digital Development and the state-owned Aerospace and Defense Industries Corporation, Rostec, said that they would take the same step or that they had already imposed a ban on use.
According to the British newspaper, this step indicates growing concern in the corridors of the Kremlin and the counterintelligence department of the Russian Federal Security Service regarding “increased espionage activities” by US intelligence agencies once morest Russian state agencies.
This decision includes banning all “Apple” products, including “iPhones” and “iPad” tablets, and other products of the American company itself, but their use for personal purposes is still permitted.
Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russian security and intelligence services, said, “The Russian security service has always been concerned regarding the use of iPhones for government communications, but the presidency and other officials have opposed imposing restrictions on its use,” saying, “They love iPhones.”
The British newspaper quoted Russian cybersecurity analyst Alexei Lukatsky as skeptical regarding whether Russian officials will permanently move to the primitive Russian system and will permanently switch to using Aurora, the only operating system made in Russia that has not been used until now.
According to the newspaper, Moscow decided to prevent the use of “Apple” devices, following the Russian Federal Security Service announced on June 1 the discovery of “a spying operation by American intelligence through the use of Apple phones.”
At the time, he said in a statement that thousands of “Apple” phones were targeted to be part of the operation.
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