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Posted by: kate ® 2000/08/31, 13:30:10 Author Profile |
I talk to my parents on the phone and I suspect their telephone has been bugged since it had been installed (about a year ago) because I am sure there is a record of me living in the US now. We worked in communications industry and everybody in FSB (KGB) ("same penis but in profile", as we say in Russia) knew where we lived and listened to our radio/phone conversations daily. Our Russian partners told me about it when we left. They had to provide info on our every move. We moved several times when we lived there, so each time we moved they had to inform FSB of our new address/telephone. Even though at that time I had no proof of it, I knew that they were listening. I was used to it. They didn't understand English and once there was a funny event that took place. They called our other Russian partner there whose repeater I used to communicate with Bob. They demanded him to come to the Frequency Committee. They complained to him that according to the law no encrypted messages were to be sent over the air if the Frequency Committee was not given instructions for decryption or a decryption device to listen to them and since our conversations were not in Russian (they couldn't understand it) hence they were encrypted (according to the authorities). Our partner was about to say: "Well guys, I can buy you an English Russian Dictionary if you want" but you can not play jokes with a Russian Frequency Committee. They are like INS or IRS people. Do not have a sense of "ha-ha".
We will see where it brings to. This new law has been discussed by people in the industry for a long time already. Needless to say people in the industry (I mean Communications) do not like it but the law was passed without consulting them. What one of our Russian partners in Moscow said was that Russian communications companies simply did not have the means to implement it and since even FSB doesn't have balls big enough to just shut down every ISP and Paging/Trunking system in Russia the law will be modified or just not enforced. I don't know. All I feel is I am afraid to think that FSB and Russian authorities are trying to bring "absolute power" back to life. It will be harmful to Russian people even to such as toymans. Kate. --modified by kate at Thu, Aug 31, 2000, 14:05:02 Modified by at Thu, Aug 31, 2000, 14:05:05 |
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