Russia is blocking encrypted email startup Skiff
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Russian government has blocked another encrypted email provider, according to a Russian digital rights organization and the email provider.
The block against Skiff comes three years after Russia blocked similar email encrypted services Proton Mail and Tutanota, showing that President Vladimir Putin’s regime is decidedly clamping down on encrypted communication services that allow its citizens to conduct conversations that are harder to spy on.
The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment. The Russian government’s censorship authority, commonly known as Roskomnadzor, also did not respond to an email asking for comment. Roskomnadzor’s register of blocked sites does not list Skiff as blocked at the time of publication.
Shakirov explained that this has the effect of blocking Skiff.com and all of its subdomains, ‘thus, Russian users who are not using VPN, browser plugins, or censorship bypass tools like Tor or Psiphon can’t get access to Skiff services.’
According to Skiff, the company has half a million users in Russia.
‘I started Skiff with a more private vision for the internet, where our personal information is not shared, bought, and sold. [Skiff’s co-founder ] Jason [Ginsberg] and I have both had personal or professional connections to Russia — mine through Stanford, and Jason’s family escaped the Soviet Bloc in the late 1970s via a covert radio network,’ Milich said. ‘With fast adoption of our products and now suppression of them, we’re even more confident and determined in our mission to build products for private communication and freedom.’
Reference: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/russia-skiff-block/
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