The American company Sandvine, whose products were used to filter internet traffic in Belarus, will no longer supply its technologies to the country. Bloomberg.
According to the company’s preliminary investigation, a custom code was added to its products to “disrupt the free flow of information during the Belarus elections.”
“This is a human rights violation that led to the automatic termination of our end-user license agreement,” the paper quotes Sandvine’s statement.
The company will stop providing software updates and maintenance for its equipment, which is used in Belarus by the National Traffic Exchange Center.
That does not mean the equipment will stop functioning. It can be used in the short term, Sandvine stressed.
Earlier, was reported that Sandvine equipment is installed in two locations in Minsk. It can block 40% of all inbound and outbound internet traffic in the country and add up to 150 million URLs to the blacklist.
As reported amid the presidential elections in Belarus and the protests that followed across the country began to report internet outages.
Authorities attributed this to “foreign interference,” but many experts are convinced that it was an internet shutdown by the state.
Daily losses from the shutdown in Belarus were estimated at $56 million.
Experts told ForkLog, how to bypass the blocks and in which cases this is not possible, and whether satellite internet such as Starlink can help.
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