FSB Surveillance System Developer Flees Russia with Secret Archive
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The developer of the FSB's System of Operative-Investigative Measures (SORM), which monitors Russians' online activity, has left Russia and taken a secret archive of technical documentation with him. The documents reveal that the system can trace digital activity back to specific users using phone numbers, IP addresses, emails, or domains. The developer handed over the archive to journalists after leaving the country.
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