2023-07-17 14:35:41
After accusing the Apple of allegedly facilitating the espionage of iPhones already Russia by the American government, the Kremlin now forbade the use of the Apple smartphone — as well as other Apple products — by thousands of authorities and public servants, according to information from Financial Times.
Russia’s Ministry of Commerce said that starting this Monday (17/7), it will ban all use of iPhones for “work purposes”. The country’s digital development body and the Rosteca state-owned company that is under sanction by Western countries due to the war in Ukraine, said they will follow suit or have already introduced similar bans — although use for personal purposes is still allowed.
Authorities really believe that Americans can use their equipment for wiretapping. The Federal Security Service [da Rússia] There has long been concern about the use of iPhones for business contacts, but some officials have objected. [às restrições] simply because they like iPhones.
—Andrey Soldatovan expert on Russian intelligence and security services
The ban is mainly aimed at exchanging emails related to work activities, since “experts in the IT department report that when someone opens their work email on an iPhone, it is easy to control it”, according to a source of the report.
Everyone in the presidential administration is aware that the iPhone is a completely transparent device and its use for official purposes is unacceptable and prohibited.
Alexey Lukatsky, a Russian cybersecurity veteran, is doubtful however that authorities will make a permanent switch to using devices running the rudimentary operating system. Auroradeveloped in Russia.
It is worth mentioning that, one month after the Russian president Vladimir Putin launching his invasion of Ukraine, in February last year, he signed a decree demanding that organizations involved in “critical information infrastructure” — a broad term that includes healthcare, science and the financial sector — migrate to the domestic software market by 2025 , reflecting Moscow’s longstanding desire to get state institutions to abandon foreign technologies.
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