Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор) - The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media - has blocked more than 50 VPN and Proxies in Russia in an effort to prevent people from accessing the secure messaging app Telegram. Roskomnadzor has also suggested that it could block access to 15 foreign hosting companies if they continue to provide IP addresses that route users to Telegram.
Telegram and millions of related IP addresses were blocked following an April 13 Moscow court order against the app for refusing to give the FSB access to users’ private messages. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has maintained that providing encryption keys or gaining access to information beyond the device is impossible. (Moscow Times, May 4, 2018)
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The blocking of access to Telegram by the Russian government may be seen as a portent of things to come in the United States as the FBI and other Federal government agencies seek a master key / backdoor to access encrypted devices and applications.
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