Russia’s vast telecom surveillance system crippled by withdrawal of Western tech, report says

The hardware and software required for the Russian telecommunications sector to maintain the country’s electronic surveillance system, known as the System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM), are increasingly unavailable, significantly undermining the Russian government’s Orwellian domestic spying system, according to a new report. Western sanctions and export controls put in place after Russia’s invasion of

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