New York Times:
How Geneva-based developer Proton is waging a sustained fight against Russia’s censorship and surveillance campaigns using its VPN tech — The cat-and-mouse experience of Proton, a Swiss company, shows what it’s like to be targeted by Russian censors — and what it takes to fight back.
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images — Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing’s zero-Covid policies
New York Times:
An investigation, based on ~160K documents from Roskomnadzor, details Russia’s vast surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain his regime — Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google rolls out its Google One VPN to Windows and macOS in 22 countries; the service is available to Premium subscribers with 2TB+ storage — Google is bringing its VPN access to desktop today. Google One subscribers on Premium plans (2TB or higher) can now download VPN apps for Windows and macOS …
TechCrunch:
Two weeks ahead of China’s 20th communist party congress, censors seem to be blocking TLS-based circumvention tools that locals use to bypass the Great Firewall — Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Moscow-based Kaspersky plans to shut down its Kaspersky Secure Connection VPN in Russia, starting with the free version on November 15, 2022 — Kaspersky is stopping the operation and sales of its VPN product, Kaspersky Secure Connection, in the Russian Federation, with the free version to be suspended as early as November 15, 2022.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
The creator of Kiwi Farms, known for hosting targeted harassment campaigns, says the forum site was hacked and users’ email and IP address data is compromised — Harassment site is down for now after hacker gains access to admin account. — The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known …
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