Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram
Bloomberg Anthony Halpin
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Discussion
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@polidemitolog
Aleksandar Djokic
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Roskomnadzor demanded that Russian media remove reports linking a major banking outage on April 3 to government internet blocking measures. Articles from Forbes and the Mash Telegram channel disappeared after they cited technical overload of Roskomnadzor's filtering systems as
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@marionawfal
Mario Nawfal
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🇷🇺Russia tried to crack down on VPNs. Instead they crashed their own banking system. Sberbank, T-Bank, VTB all went down. ATMs stopped working. Lines at gas stations. Cash only, nationwide. 50 million Russians still use Telegram daily through VPNs despite it being banned. [image]
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@durov
Pavel Durov
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Telegram was banned in Russia — yet 50M+ Russians still use it daily via VPNs. The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive banking failure — cash briefly became the only payment method nationwide.
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@iikkakorhonen
Iikka Korhonen
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“...outage may have been caused by an overload in the filtering systems run by Russia's communications watchdog, according to the reports, with experts warning that major restrictions risk undermining network stability.” — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...