The team of independent digital security researchers at BARGHEST.asia found that Russian security forces during border inspections can, in a matter of seconds, download a list of contacts and call history from an unlocked Android phone via Bluetooth. The study was prompted by a real case: a human rights defender had their phone taken at the Russian border, was asked to unlock it, and it was returned five minutes later.

#Compelson #MOBILedit #InteriorMinistry #borderguards #SORM

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In the U.S., Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Raiber and co-founder and CTO Oleg Davydov were detained. American prosecutors believe the software supplier for law enforcement concealed Russian owners and software development in Russia.

#OxygenForensics #Davydov #InteriorMinistry #Reiber #USA #FSB

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On the afternoon of September 21 in the village of Granovshchina in the Irkutsk region, a 59-year-old Toyota driver hit a 10-year-old boy at full speed. The child was hospitalized with serious injuries, and the regional Interior Ministry did not specify whether the driver had been detained.

#toyota #waragainstUkraine #Granovshchina #Irkutskregion #InteriorMinistry #prosecutorsoffice

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In Moscow, security forces disrupted rapper Madk1d’s concert at the «Mesto Mesto» club on Pokrovka. Visitors were taken out of the hall, the venue was cordoned off, and several people were detained.

#Madk1d #InteriorMinistry #PlacePlace #Moscow #Russianguard

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Meduza journalist and host of the podcast What Happened Vladislav Gorin on the wanted list. In June, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against him under Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code on carrying out the activities of an «undesirable organization».

#VladislavGorin #InteriorMinistry #jellyfish #undesirableorganization #InvestigativeCommittee #criminalcase

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The 36-year-old British citizen Dzmitry Smatritski said that police officers beat him in Yessentuki, where he had come for his grandmother’s funeral. After filing a complaint with the investigative department, he says, he was advised to leave Russia as soon as possible.

#Belarus #UnitedKingdom #Essentuki #InteriorMinistry #Russia #InvestigativeCommittee

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In the Moscow metro, police detained about 140 foreigners during a raid using a system that the Ministry of Internal Affairs calls «the latest technology». All of those detained were taken to police stations, and they are then planned to be deported and banned from entering the country.

#All #InteriorMinistry #thelatesttechnology

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