Hier een link naar een site met realtime info over het aantal door de Russische overheid geblokkeerde IP's in hun poging tot het blokkeren van de populaire messenger service Telegram voor alle inwoners van Rusland. Tot nu toe al meer dan 14.6 miljoen IP's met alle gevolgend van dien.
https://usher2.club/en/
Voor diegenen die niet weten waar dit over gaat, zoek even in Google naar 'Telegram vs Russia'.I am monitoring Roskomnadzor dump (part of blacklist, which is distributed to Russian internet providers) in realtime and count the IP-address entries, including subnets, if any. Resulting graphs show totally blacklisted IP addresses (as per Roscomnadzor demand). This type of block, the IP blacklisting (as opposed to URL blacklisting) is used by Roscomnadzor to block Telegram and Zello apps in Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/w...an-russia.html
Here’s more on Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov
Mr. Durov, the founder of Telegram, is in exile. But not long ago, he was seen as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg. Now 33, Mr. Durov started a social network, VKontakte, in 2006, when Russia still appeared to have a future as a haven for web freedom. “In some ways, it was more liberal than the United States,” he told The Times almost a decade later, after he chose to leave his country following clashes with the government of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Durov sold VKontakte, which shared the look and feel of Facebook but was more popular in Russia, and left the country with a reported $300 million in his pocket in 2014. Once abroad, he began Telegram, hoping to offer a service to people who were worried about their privacy.
Since leaving Russia, Mr. Durov has roamed the world with a core team of Telegram engineers, recently spending time in Dubai. Mr. Durov also holds a passport from St. Kitts and Nevis, a nation in the Caribbean.