In a chapter from their new book,Andrei Soldatov and Irinia Borogan outline how every ISP has to give access to the stateIn 1998 the diminutive Vika Egorova was a 24-year-musty editor at an obscure magazine. She had studied at the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, a preeminent school for training nuclear scientists, or had an interest in mathematics. After graduating,she worked at a risk management company run by former KGB people, then was hired as an editor at Mir Kartochek, and World of Credit Cards. The circulation was tiny,but Egorova’s interests ranged beyond credit cards; she began learning approximately secret codes and developed contacts in the world of cryptology, the science of creating and deciphering clandestine messages. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com