Lukashenko's Fear And Paranoia Turned Out To Be Another Embarrassment For The KGB

On the effects of inept boomerang use.

Cell phones gone, landlines preserved. Also, paper media. The ruler suddenly became concerned about cybersecurity.

The man for whom the words blog, iPhone and Tic-Toc are worse than the blackest swear word suddenly spoke without his usual slumber: "Your phone is lying around - the intelligence services know everything you have going on. On, off - it doesn't matter."

And there is a feeling that such knowledge could have been put into his head by people who do just that. Those for whom listening to other people's conversations is an everyday routine.

If necessary, they will listen to the opposition activist, and if they say so, they will remotely study the vox populi in the smoking room of an unprofitable collective farm somewhere in Vitebsk region.

These people, to all appearances, have been feeding the ruler with scare stories for their own vested interests for years. They scare the ruler with sleeping cells of "terrorists" inside the country, and then alarm the long-aged man with threats from outside.

And if this very organization instilled in Lukashenko a fear of the cell phone, then this time these very people have overdone it a bit. By launching this boomerang, they are risking their own foreheads.

It was the KGB, represented by its former head Valeri Vakulchik, that in May 2018 pompously reported on solving the problem of leaks of confidential information. It was about a special development - a smartphone, the analogs of which allegedly could boast only a few countries.

- Closed government communication exists and is in demand. But time requires some new solutions. The head of state has set a task to develop a secure cell phone that would allow to conduct private conversations in any place and at any time with any official, - Vakulchik prepared the audience for a sensation.

And voiced it - according to him, the miracle smartphone by that time had been developed, manufactured and was already being put into mass production.

The new phone was supposedly reliably protected from eavesdropping and interception, and in the event of an attempted unauthorized opening of the device, the contents were supposed to self-destruct.

In 2018, the KGB leadership not only aspired to meet domestic needs for the latest development, but also promised to export the novelty to "some friendly countries."

And nowadays, Lukashenko drew a bold line under this project with a couple of phrases. Calling for a return to the technologies of the century before last, he dispelled the last doubts about the existence of a special smartphone "made in KGB."

Artyom Sinitsyn, "Salidarnasts"

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