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> Tax-3 - a project for the creation of a closed intranet to store the information of highly-sensitive state figures, judges, and local administration officials, separate from the rest of the state's IT networks.

So, is this intranet used for keeping official (confidential) records or for blackmail purposes?

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Or is it the network they won’t pass laws requiring backdoors for? Literally segment society into those with power and privacy, and those with neither?

Why on earth would they need separate infrastructure and the rest of us do not?

>Why on earth would they need separate infrastructure and the rest of us do not?

I imagine they wanted to build their own version of SIPRNet.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet

Probably a way to avoid the massive leak of the names of intel officers when that US gov employment database got leaked. The note about operating outside of the standard state IT network is the obvious indicator.

Part of their job is counter intelligence not just offensive.

Counter intelligence is FSB's pretty much the only job. If they do intelligence, it's in CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries such as Belarus or Kazakhstan. It's SVR and GRU that are Russia's intelligence agencies.

Right, same with deanonyming Tor. That’s only useful for catching people/software trying to hide themselves which is more counter intelligence than purely offensive.

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