Iirc, in Russia, companies must have participation of the state. And Russia inherited laws from the Soviet Union, has had autocratic tendencies even between the opening of the SU and Putin coming to power, and has worked with other dictatorships such as China, Cuba and Venezuela’s. So it’s easy to assume and expect there’s state-issued spyware to monitor users.
Iirc, in Russia, companies must have participation of the state. And Russia inherited laws from the Soviet Union, has had autocratic tendencies even between the opening of the SU and Putin coming to power, and has worked with other dictatorships such as China, Cuba and Venezuela’s. So it’s easy to assume and expect there’s state-issued spyware to monitor users.
It’s more or less an assumption ?
Yes, though because primary sources don’t live much in such places when they pose a risk to a given regime.