Google – AFP, 26 March 2014
 |
A woman
looks at an Apple iPad at one of the company's stores in Paris,
on December 20,
2013 (AFP/File, Patrick Kovarik)
|
Moscow —
Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to
ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday.
Journalists
spotted that ministers at a cabinet meeting were no longer using Apple tablets,
and minister Nikolai Nikiforov confirmed the changeover "took place not so
long ago."
He said the
ministers' new Samsungs were "specially protected devices that can be used
to work with confidential information."
"Some
of the information at government meetings is confidential in nature and these
devices fully meet these demands and have gone through the strictest system of
certification."
Nikiforov
denied that Russia was clamping down on US technology in response to Western
sanctions imposed over its takeover of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
"We
are not proposing any sanctions," he said.
But he did
mention reading reports that "American special services... will
significantly increase the volume of information they intercept (which) of
course causes serious concern to many governmental clients."
"This
obviously orientates Russian clients, primarily state ones, to be very choosy
about their partners in IT," Nikiforov said.
He added
that South Korean firms such as Samsung, along with Chinese ones, could be
interesting to Russia in this respect.
Russia's
then-president and now Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Silicon Valley in
2010 and received an iPhone as a gift from the late Steve Jobs, using it to
send his first tweet.
'Nyet!': Ukrainian women call sex strike against Russia
Russia to launch its payment system in months, as disruption fears mount
Related Articles:
'Nyet!': Ukrainian women call sex strike against Russia
Russia to launch its payment system in months, as disruption fears mount
Archangel Michael: This Desperation is Forcing Many to Seek Peace - Golden Age of Gaia, Steve Beckow, March 7, 2014
Archangel Michael: The Russia Ukraine debacle … is also truly about oil and gas and so there is a struggle about who is going to control what we would refer to as oil dollars. So there is this loose alignment which has been unusual between Russia and China – and we are talking about the power regime of China and not the [Chinese] Elders – so there is a reticence [on the part of Americans] to give all the oil buying power to that alliance – Russia, China.
Steve: Is Russia colluding with China to turn a blind eye to what China is doing in Zimbabwe? [China is building a military airbase.] (1)
AAM: Yes, but it is coming to an end because human beings are quite fed up.
There is significant … we can’t call it intervention … but can we call it attention? … that your star brothers and sisters are bringing to this entire situation.
No comments:
Post a Comment