A ‘Wild Boar’ trained by Yandex A massive data leak reveals the role of artificial intelligence in Internet surveillance and suppressing protest in Russia

A ‘Wild Boar’ trained by Yandex A massive data leak reveals the role of artificial intelligence in Internet surveillance and suppressing protest in Russia

Last November, a Belarusian hacker group called “Cyberpartisans” announced that it had gained access to more than two terabytes of documents and messages exchanged by the staff of a nondescript entity within the larger structure of Russia’s mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor. The so-called Main Radio Frequency Center (MRFC), or (in Russian) “FGUP GRChTs,” turned out to be the locus of Russia’s Internet surveillance and a major driver of repressi…