Rostelecom’s New System Will Control Millions of Home Routers. How to Keep Your Network Out of the State Company’s Hands?

Rostelecom’s New System Will Control Millions of Home Routers. How to Keep Your Network Out of the State Company’s Hands?

“Leshy Connect” is the sonorous name Rostelecom gave to its new system for managing about seven million (!) Russians’ home routers. The state company will carry out device diagnostics without its clients noticing.

The likelihood that this kind of control creates additional risks for your privacy is not as high as it may seem. Still, you can minimize Rostelecom’s ability to manage your home network.

What do you need to do for that? And what steps should you take so the state loses the ability to monitor the traffic coming from your network as well?

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Rostelecom will quietly manage millions of Russians’ home routers. Is there any way to protect yourself from that?

The outlet CNews found Rostelecom’s application to add to the Russian software registry a system for managing Russians’ home routers. It is called “Leshy Connect.” And with its help, Rostelecom will be able to remotely, without users noticing…