Many perceive Russia as a country where the "digital Gulag" has triumphed. In reality, the situation is more interesting and complex: modern Russia is a country where cyberpunk has triumphed.
How does the FSB's system for eavesdropping on all phone conversations and internet traffic work—and how can one remain invisible to it?
Is Pavel Durov really leaking our Telegram correspondence after receiving a call from Lubyanka?
Will the authorities be able to build Cheburnet?
This book by Andrei Zakharov, one of Russia's leading investigative journalists, brings together these astonishing stories and dozens of others into a coherent narrative that offers plenty of reasons to be horrified, but also hope: despite years of government efforts to control the digital space, Russians are successfully resisting and undermining the Kremlin's efforts.
Andrey Zakharov
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