Russian authorities really are working on decoding the Internet traffic of Russia's citizens, said member of the advisory council of the country's presidential administration and head of company InfoWatch Natalya Kasperskaya. According to her, it was Russia's federal Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor and security service the FSB that lobbied for this.
Kasperskaya said that she believes this initiative to "the absolutely right thing [to do]."
"You put your mobile device in your pocket and your privacy ends at that. Let us face it," she said. Kasperskaya did not specify the decryption project. Roskomnadzor and the FSB declined to comment on Kasperskaya's statements.
On September 21, newspaper Kommersant reported that, in the framework of implementing Russia's new anti-terror legislation, the so-called Yarovaya's law, the country's Security Service - the FSB - was discussing the possibility of decoding and analyzing the Internet traffic of Russia's citizens with the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry.