Says it is for protection from surveillance, which means reverse engineering to use in espionage, hacking, and internal surveillance.
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GRCHTS subordinate to Roskomnadzor buys more than fifty foreign gadgets
The iPhone, iPad, Xiaomi, Samsung Galaxy and other devices purchased by the department will be checked for “protection from surveillance” and the possibility of functioning in Russia, allegedly in case they are turned off by the companies themselves.
Recall that earlier the Ministry of Digital Transformation forbade its employees to use Apple equipment for official correspondence amid reports of infection of diplomats’ devices with viruses for surveillance.
Apple representatives denied these accusations, saying that the company “has never worked with the government to implement a backdoor in any Apple product and never will.”
