Russia has announced Sunday that it has blocked several Google IP addresses that the authorities believe can bypass the blocking of encrypted Telegram messaging.
Russia is determined to block the Telegram encrypted email application. "In violation of a court decision, Google continues to allow the company Telegram Messenger Limited Liability Partnership to use its IP addresses to continue its activities in Russia," said Sunday Roskomnadzor, the Russian authority control on his official Twitter account.
"For this reason, Roskomnadzor has blacklisted a number of Google's IP addresses used by Telegram to operate in the Russian Federation," she said.
A spokesman for the Google Group told the state-run news agency RIA Novosti that it is "aware that some users do not have access to certain Google services," adding that it was clarifying the situation. situation.
Millions of blocked IP addresses in Russia
Russia this week blocked millions of IP addresses used to circumvent the encryption messaging block Telegram, ordered by Roskomnadzor following a court decision because of Telegram's refusal to provide special services (FSB) with the keys to read user messages.
Among these blocked IP addresses, several hundreds of thousands were linked to the "cloud" (cloud computing) services of Amazon and more than one million to those of Google, according to a Roskomnadzor spokesman, quoted by the agency Interfax.
On Sunday, however, Telegram remained largely accessible in Russia. Founded in 2013 by the brothers Pavel and Nikolay Dourov, creators formerly of the social network VKontakte, Telegram has benefited, thanks to the security that it offers to its users, debates of the last years on the protection of privacy at the time. use of new technologies.