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Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by magic_quotes »

hal9000xp wrote: post #45

As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe. But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting int…

> Heck, the majority of Russians doesn't even bother to learn elementary English!

I'm not necessary disagreeing, but why should they? I mean, it is obviously useful, but it doesn't directly translate to quality of life improvement.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by hal9000xp »

SanFranManDan wrote: post #85
hal9000xp wrote: post #45

As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe. But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting int…

> That's why I left Russia and I hope forever! > dirty rotten mouths of nasty Kremlin bastards > Heck, the majority of Russians doesn't even bother to learn elementary English! > Stupid people buy everything Kremlin tells them, including version about protecting Russian citizens from US NSA. > thanks to backward masses > P.S. I hope to get rid of toxic Russian citizenship in the future. I think the only thing toxic h…

This majority is totally fine to imprison unwanted minorities. This majority is totally fine to restrict my freedoms. This majority thinks they are right because they are majority.

So in short, the majority asks me to sacrifice myself for their sake because I'm in minority and they are in majority.

If so, f##k them!

P.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by vladimir-y »

hal9000xp wrote: post #74
vladimir-y wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily get VPN and continue to use Linkedin if you need to. > Kremlin loves to spy on its own citizens. And they already did that for a long time. Most of the governments do love to spy on its own citizens, for obvious reasons.

> You can easily get VPN and continue to use Linkedin if you need to. VPN is only temporary cure. I think soon or later Kremlin will try to crack down use of VPN when it becomes popular. > Most of the governments do love to spy on its own citizens, for obvious reasons. And I'm not fond of most governments and even notion of big intrusive government.

> VPN is only temporary cure. I think soon or later Kremlin will try to crack down use of VPN when it becomes popular.

Correct, but VPN would allow you to use Linkedin until you have not managed to get rid of the Russian citizenship

> P.S. I hope to get rid of toxic Russian citizenship in the future.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by jwtadvice »

tobltobs wrote: post #86
jwtadvice wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> TLS protects the data against snooping I see that the tacit assumption in this thread is that the FSB can't defeat simple consumer encryption. The certificates in Russian citizens' browsers allow the Russian government to intercept their communications. This is just one of hundreds of weaknesses to that belief.

I guess everbody wants to know now how those certificates are included in Russian citizens browsers. Care to enlighten us? And while you are at it you could also tell us how this regulation > make it more difficult for the US to spy on Russian citizens ???

Sure.

> everbody wants to know now how those certificates are included in Russian citizens browsers.

Included in the builds.

> And while you are at it you could also tell us how this regulation make it more difficult for the US to spy on Russian citizens

The traffic will stay inside of infrastructure controlled by the Russian government through its domestic ISPs, rather than exiting the country to ingestion nodes disclosed by Snowden to be used to surveil on internet traffic.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by jwtadvice »

zzzcpan wrote: post #89
jwtadvice wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mentioned this in another thread off the same converasion: Russia intelligence services can almost certainly break consumer grade encryption.

There is no supporting infrastructure for this at the moment, even if you presume, that they stole secret keys from some CAs.

Are you claiming that the Russian government doesn't have a domestic surveillance infrastructure?

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by kovrik »

kovrik wrote: post #79
hal9000xp wrote: post #45

As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe. But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting int…

I am a Russian too, moved to New Zealand. I was talking to my colleague from Russia via Linkedin, he was asking me about moving to NZ, getting the visa and so on. But now he can't read my response... sigh

Update: no, he has just responded, says that LinkedIn still works fine, probably they are negotiating or something.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by yankoff »

kovrik wrote: post #79
hal9000xp wrote: post #45

As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe. But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting int…

I am a Russian too, moved to New Zealand. I was talking to my colleague from Russia via Linkedin, he was asking me about moving to NZ, getting the visa and so on. But now he can't read my response... sigh

get a VPN

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by zzzcpan »

jwtadvice wrote: post #95
zzzcpan wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no supporting infrastructure for this at the moment, even if you presume, that they stole secret keys from some CAs.

Are you claiming that the Russian government doesn't have a domestic surveillance infrastructure?

Technically it has, but only for unencrypted communications and without cooperation from internet companies. Which they really want to change with all the new laws and everything.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by jwtadvice »

zzzcpan wrote: post #98
jwtadvice wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you claiming that the Russian government doesn't have a domestic surveillance infrastructure?

Technically it has, but only for unencrypted communications and without cooperation from internet companies. Which they really want to change with all the new laws and everything.

So the assertion is that Russian intelligence services cannot thwart encryption, including the encryption that it standardized for civilian use?

If this were true, I would feel very comfortable speaking about politics in Russia, as in the United States all consumer-grade encryption is being broken by our intelligence services.

Re: LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia

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Post by kovrik »

magic_quotes wrote: post #91
hal9000xp wrote: post #45

As a Russian citizen, I used LinkedIn heavily to find jobs in Europe (along with stackoverflow.com/jobs). I keep a lot of contacts there (e.g. former colleagues and European recruiters, some of them are very helpful). I found it's alarming that LinkedIn is blocked in Russia. Blocking LinkedIn significantly reduces chances to find a job in Europe. But I expected that since I watched closely on new laws restricting int…

> Heck, the majority of Russians doesn't even bother to learn elementary English! I'm not necessary disagreeing, but why should they? I mean, it is obviously useful, but it doesn't directly translate to quality of life improvement.

You are right, English is almost useless in Russia.

It IS useful if you work in IT and have to read docs, but basic English is enough for that.

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