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German authorities shut down world's largest darknet marketplace, seize $25 million in Bitcoin

TechSpot

billion) in 2020 alone, despite its customers being located mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, The Frankfurt prosecutors' anti-cybercrime unit said it generated sales of 1.23 billion Euros ($1.35

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Apple’s privacy-focused Private Relay feature isn’t coming to China

The Verge

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The feature was announced during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as part of a new subscription bundle called iCloud Plus.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal? That also underscores the importance of picking a no-logs VPN.)

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

Can any software they author, past or future, ever be trusted again? ” Another developer, Mariusz Nowak, the creator of the es5-ext project, modified later versions of the library to direct Russia and Belarus-based users to accurate news sources like the BBC’s Tor service.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed. Metro4All is actually a collaboration of people in different countries interested in addressing mass transit accessibility.