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Russia Bans Thousands of Officials From Using iPhones Over Spying Fears
Gizmodo reports:
Thousands of top Russian officials and state employees have reportedly been banned from using iPhones and other Apple products over concerns they could serve as surreptitious spying tools for Western intelligence agencies... Russia's trade minister, according to a Financial Times report, said the new ban will take effect Monday, July 17. The move affects a variety of Apple products from iPhones, iPads, and laptops, and builds off of similar restrictions already put in place by the digital development ministry and state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec. Kremlin officials also advised staff working on Vladimir Putin's 2024 presidential re-election campaign against using a variety of US-developed smartphones over similar espionage conveners earlier this year... Russian intelligence officials last month accused the US National Security Agency of hacking into thousands of Russian-owned iPhones and targeting the phones of foreign diplomats based in Russia... To be clear, Russian officials still haven't provided any clear evidence proving the alleged US conspiracy. Apple has also publicly denied the claims and recently told the Times it "has never worked with any government to build a backdoor into any Apple product, and never will."
The Financial Times got a skeptical response to that from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council and one of the country's fiercest hardliners. "When a big tech compan...â.âclaims it does not co-operate with the intelligence community — either it lies shamelessly or it is about to [go bust]."
Thanks to Slashdot reader dovthelachma for sharing the news.
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probably a good call
by gavron ( 1300111 ) on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:50AM (#63708920)
> the new ban will take effect Monday, July 17
First reported on/. Sunday July 23rd.
Please, tell us about the horseless buggy coming soon and those darn candleless streetlights. Soon I hope. I don't want to miss the fresh news on a great new thing.
Also who gives a shit about iPhones in Russia? They're a world agressor engaged in the second like nazi takeover of a neighboring country in five years. After Crimea and Ukraine they'll go after Poland. Their government should burn in eternal fire like the devil's butthole. Nobody gives a shit which iCrap they use.
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After Crimea and Ukraine they'll go after Poland.
"after".
The most effective things Russia has managed so far with it's military is prove to the world that their propaganda about their army was more effective than their army and then to degrade their fignting capability somewhat further.
I think it's very unlikely that Russia will be able to manage more than a stalemate in Ukraine, but if somehow Ukraine collapses, they'd have the combined might of NATO plus the whichever Russia bordered EU member states haven't joined NATO yet, since Poland has two mutual defense treaties. I think they'd like to go after Poland, but they lack the juice to do so. Georgia and Kazakhstan have no such protection, so I reckon they'd be next.
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NATO won't defend Poland
Collective defence and Article 5 [nato.int]
This is the single most important part of being in NATO, it's pretty much the entire thing, you can't just handwave it away without a better argument, this is fantasy cope.
This is axactly why nations like Poland and the Baltics were so hot to trot to get into NATO, because it's pretty much a guarantee that Russia won't fuck with you. Notice Romania or Latvia or Croatia are not getting invaded currently?
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> Notice Romania or Latvia or Croatia are not getting invaded currently?
Neither are Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, or North Korea. And these aren't NATO members.
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Since NATO is for European countries those countries won't ever be NATO members. : ^)
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As for those countries you mentioned not being invaded you clearly are unfamiliar with the 2008 Russo-Georgian War [wikipedia.org]..
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Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have friendly relations with Russia so there's little current need to ally with a security organization. Mongolia and North Korea are allied with China, which maintains an substantial balance of power against the threat of Russian influence and aggression.-
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Actually I will be delighted. Let's get anyone and everyone in NATO, including Japan and all those other countries mentioned.
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I am in Kazakhstan right now. The Kazakh government has become quite worried about "separatism" in the northern provinces along the Russian border (especially Pavlodar and Petropavlovsk). It has concluded a military cooperation agreement with Turkey in 2022, has intensified patrols along its northern border (the longest border in the world, so quite the challenge) and is now buying Turkish military hardware such as APCs for that purpose.
Georgia got invaded in 2008, which is why they have been eager for NA
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Thanks for showing us how to say you are completely and utterly ignorant of the NATO treaty without using those words.
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He's probably a Florida-Man supporter and can barely spell NATO -- maybe also one of those people that Google "What's the number for 911?" (which is apparently an actual thing)
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Biden is a reasonably fit old man who's overcome a speech impediment to become President of the United States. He's slowing down with age.
But that's just Dark Brandon's secret identity. Dark Brandon is the guy you need to be worrying about.
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He'd fit right in with the drag queen https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-ou... [nbcnews.com] charged with fraud https://www.justice.gov/usao-e... [justice.gov]
Or the 36 year old grandmother https://www.denverpost.com/202... [denverpost.com] who is recently divorced https://coloradosun.com/2023/0... [coloradosun.com] and whose husband flashed his dick to underage girls behind a bowling alley https://www.thedailybeast.com/... [thedailybeast.com]
Bringing us to the Jewish space lasers conspiracy theorist herself https://news.yahoo.com/marjori... [yahoo.com] who showed pictures of Hunter Biden having sex during
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Apples and Oranges ding-dong. Poland is a member of NATO (since 1999), Ukraine is not (yet).
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Ukraine is not a member of Nato, hence Nato are not defending Ukraine. And Nato will not defend Poland you say? Poland IS a member of Nato, so by your logic, then Poland will not defend it self?
As for the rest of your post..... It makes you eighter sound like a Ruskie from Vodka-Land or a US rightwing.
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You do know that Poland has been a member of NATO since 1999 whereas Ukraine is not a member of NATO?
While the US has given Ukraine lots of specific munitions, they have not given them all equipment and munitions sometimes for practical reasons. For example, the US has a huge stockpile of high precision bombs like laser guided and GPS guided ones. Up until recently Ukraine did not have any NATO planes like the F-16 that could launch them.
Even though Putin's army has been pushed back to eastern Ukraine, you
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Even though Putin's army has been pushed back to eastern Ukraine, you think he will somehow cross into Ukraine AND Romania to invade Moldova
No need to involve Romania: Moldova is been Ukraine and Romania. It also has a region that has broken away (Transnistria) and has Russian troops on the ground (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_presence_in_Transnistria).
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Moldova is *between* Ukraine and Romania
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Putin will have to cross into Romania to invade the Balkans by land. Any invasion from the sea into Moldova may require Russian forces to enter western Ukraine or Eastern Romania. By my point was the poster thinks that it will be easy to invade either and not entangle multiple countries is nonsensical.
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They said Baltics, not Balkans.
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Oh, I think Russia has lost.
Germany didn't lose on D-Day.
Japan didn't lose the day Hiroshima was flattened with a nuclear weapon.Both lost over a year before that.
Russia lost over a year ago now.
This is just the end game.
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Transnistria will be next if Russia manages to capture Odesa. The people there want to be part of Russia. They are among the group called the Commonwealth of Unrecognized States as a result of the slipshod dissolution of the Soviet Republic. Western/Capitalist powers were in a psychedelic domination frenzy during that era, which is what lead to much of the conflict we're seeing today. The people who live in these regions didn't get a say in what state they would live in. It's similar to the way the collapse
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Wait so the Russian empire v2, aka the Soviet "union" collapsed and that's somehow the west.ca fault.
There was no domination frenzy, there didn't need to be. All those Warsaw pact countries that rushed to join NATO did it because they fucking hate Russia and what it did to them when they were under its dominion. They were desperate to get protection and as far away from their former imperial masters as possible.
And the west didn't "choose" those borders, they are chosen sms sometimes fought over by the stat
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I didn't make any apologies for Russia. I just stated facts that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was rushed and pressured, which lead to borders that the residents of those places were unhappy with. Go read the history of Transnistria, South Ossetia and why they have been autonomous since 1991. Acknowledging history is not "apologetic." Idealism, divorced from history and reality will lead to conflict and confusion with the real world as you try to hammer people into your fantastical conception of the w
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Fuck off Russia apologist.
You said " Western/Capitalist powers were in a psychedelic domination frenzy during that era, which is what lead to much of the conflict we're seeing today."
These border disputes as you call them have nothing to do with "the west" because "the west" didn't set the borders. The soviet union collapsed and the remaining fragments negotiated or fought among themselves to set the borders.
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You're just another idiot who buys the propaganda and hasn't spend 5 seconds trying to figure out WHY Russia invaded.
Do you have any idea why?
Well,there are the stated reasons:
1. Ukraine has always been part of Russia.
2. Ukraine is full of Nazis and we have to de-nazify the country and their jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust.
3. All the people in the areas we grabbed in 2014 said they want to be part of Russia and pay no attention the the gun we held to their heads. We do that to everyone.
4. Nobody can stop us anyway this will be all over in a week tops. So why even talk about it.
5. Ukraine is the aggressor.
6. NATO.
Then there are the unstated reasons:
a. Russia's economy is in the crapper and grabbing Ukraine's prosperity is one way to fix that, at least temporarily.
b. Putin wants to head the new USSR with all the client states doing what he wants.
Can anyone help fill in any more of these? I put in my 5 seconds.
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You missed out anything about arrogance and levels of stupidity so high that they believe their own propaganda!
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Sorry, what?
You may be right on the second point, but this one is ridiculous. Check the World Bank data, certainly not a source even remotely a suspect of pro-russian sentiments:
GDP UA-RU [worldbank.org]
Ukraine's per-capita GDP is a fraction of Russia's. The country is much, much poorer than Russia. And it's not even catching up, but growing at the same rate and in many years less:
GDP growth UA-RU [worldbank.org]
Even before the war, even before the 2014 civil war, it was an incredibly poor country. It went downhill after the USSR disinteg
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That's pure bullshit. Ukraine is one of the world's major exporters of wheat, corn, sunflower seeds and vegetable oil. It provides programming and IT services for companies around the world. If it was poor prior to Russia's invasion you can partially blame endemic corruption syphoning off its wealth, a reality that is just as prevalent in Russia.
As for Russia's per-capita GDP...that's a stupid metric, as the majority of that GDP is from extractive industries, as it has the world's largest natural gas
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Is it because Russia used Jewish space lasers in California?
Ukraine better accelerate progress if it wants to "win" before it starts snowing around mid-October. According to recent ISW maps, the small areas of land retaken in the much vaunted counter-attack are mostly treeless open fields; no population centers of any significance have been reclaimed yet.
After October, the fragile Ukraine electricity grid is going to be an easy target again, and their repair will likely be more difficult than last winter. H
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Yep, now that the front has moved from Ukraine soil, Russia has gone from having the second best army in Ukraine to the second best in Russia. But really someone should slap Putin with an environmentalist award, no single human has done more to get Europe unhooked from cheap Russian gas, certainly not some accord no one listens to. That’s an accomplishment that shouldn’t be overlooked.
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Russia is in the process of denaz-ifying and demilitarizing Russia.
And one thing is for sure: Russia will never be admitted into NATO after this.
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