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Members of the Russian presidential administration have been instructed to discard their iPhones by the end of March, the business daily Kommersant reported on Monday. The outlet said the decision was made due to the risk of Western espionage.
Russian officials will have to “throw away or give to their kids” their devices running the iOS operating system and switch to phones running the Android operating system, Chinese software, or the Russian Aurora system, a source told the newspaper.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to confirm or deny the report but stressed that officials are not allowed to use smartphones “for work purposes” anyway. He said that any such device, regardless of its operating system, is too exposed to handle classified information.
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