Russia’s “great crackdown” on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram’s messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It “triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov said.”
“Telegram was banned in Russia, yet 65 million Russians still use it daily via VPNs,” Durov said Saturday in a post on Telegram. “The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking…

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