Daryna Antoniuk reports:
A 21-year-old tech entrepreneur and cybersecurity specialist was arrested in Moscow on treason charges late last week — the latest case targeting Russia’s own tech community.
Details of the case are classified, but Russian media say Timur Kilin may have drawn official ire after publicly criticizing the state-owned messaging app Max and the government’s anti-cybercrime legislation.
Kilin, who built several security tools and founded a cybersecurity startup this year, had used his Telegram channel to call Max “a disgusting product.” He said he reported multiple vulnerabilities to the developers, only to be blacklisted from their group chat. Among the flaws he flagged was the app’s use of software libraries from “unfriendly countries,” which he argued could expose Russians’ data to foreign actors.
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