When it comes to privacy, everyone seems to be weiry on internet and Russian officials are also not an exception. Russian ministers have decided to leave ipad and choose Samsung devices because they believe that Apple with its American specifications might not be secure for them to handle confidential information. Apple can be an American spy ,to be precise.
Russian information minister Nikolai Nikiforov told AFP that the decision was made ‘not so long ago” to drop iPad for Samsung as they believe that Samsung is more secure and perfectly fit for us to handle classified information. However he did not tell wether they had adopted Samsung’s Knox technology is involved in protecting the Russian government’s secrets.
Analysts believe that Samsung is no alternative as it runs Google open source operating system. Besides NSA has the ability to extract the data from whatever device it may be. Russian however denies that it is skeptical about US technology.
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