Kevin Rothrock on Nostr: Programmer Petr Zhizhin says Moscow’s online voting site checks whether voters use ...
Programmer Petr Zhizhin says Moscow’s online voting site checks whether voters use a VPN by making their browsers load a YouTube image. If it loads (YouTube is blocked in Russia), the result is sent to the voting server before login.
https://t.me/PlushevChannel/38561Published at
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