London Telegraph
October 7, 2013
Research by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two Russian
investigative journalists who specialise in covering the security
services, reveals a picture of near-total surveillance, Soldatov said.
The Russian authorities have gone to great lengths to lay on the best
communications support any Olympic event has seen at the February
games, including 4G coverage and free WiFi throughout the city of Sochi.
But Soldatov and Borogan’s research indicates that the internet,
telephone and other communications providers involved are obliged to
build networks in such a way that the security services have full and
unimpeded access.
“There is an element of meta-data gathering, but Russian security
services are not so interested in meta-data. This is about content,”
Soldatov told The Telegraph, citing an “information security concept”
document laying out these measures. “The idea seems to be to make
communications in Sochi totally transparent for the Russian
authorities.”
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