MOSCOW: A Kremlin official has rejected a proposal from within Russia’s main domestic security agency to ban Skype, Gmail and Hotmail as a major threat to national security.
A senior FSB official made the proposal, according to Russian news agencies. It came after recent cyberattacks on Russia’s most popular blogging site and the website of a popular independent newspaper.
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