Employees of the administration’s domestic political bloc have been instructed to get rid of iPhone smartphones by April 1 this year due to security concerns. According to the newspaper’s report, the relevant instruction was given at a seminar held in the Moscow region in March. “Kommersant” citing several sources.
According to the newspaper’s sources, in March, AP employees must either throw away their iPhones or give them to children. At the same time, a debate arose among the participants of the seminar about the necessity of such a measure at first, but Sergey Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration, ended the discussion and set a deadline for the salvation of his employees. Apple equipment until April 1st.
This requirement is associated with the fact that these smartphones are more susceptible to hacking and spying by Western experts compared to other smartphones, while AP employees were advised to buy phones on Android, their Chinese counterparts or the Russian Aurora operating system.
In place of the iPhone, the Kremlin could buy “new secure smartphones” for employees, according to Kommersant’s sources. Sources close to the presidential administration say that the ban on the use of Apple equipment may also apply to officials involved in domestic politics in regional governments.
The conditional domestic political bloc of the Presidential Administration, as Kommersant points out, includes departments for domestic policy, public projects, the provision of the activities of the State Council and the development of information and communication technologies and communication infrastructure, the first three departments will deal with the presidential election campaign in 2024.
He was reported to be in Russia on March 13. started Mass production of personal pocket computers (PDA) under the control of the domestic operating system “Aurora” at the “Aquarius” production facilities.