Account communications minister Nikolai Nikiforov in Instagram was hacked night on January 3. The group of hackers calling itself B? Rte? Ine Siber Tim, placed on the page of pictures of Turkish flags, politicians, F-16s and shot down the Russian Su-24. The pictures were accompanied by captions in English and Turkish. By 15:30 MSK account access minister of communication has been restored, and downloaded third-party images are removed.
Earlier hacking Nikiforov commented on his page in the “VKontakte”. His outraged that after 9 o’clock at the time support Instagram did not react to the incident.
In addition, Nikiforov expressed doubts about the safety photoservice and reaction rate support.
Under the pictures, which were placed in the hackers compromised accounts, launched a massive discussion with the Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Syrian people are Instagram. In addition to the mutual insults are also present questions to the administration photoservice, which failed to promptly eliminate the consequences of unauthorized access to your account.
It is the absence of an immediate response service to support social photoservice the resonance hacking is a major negative point for Instagram in this case.
Recall that in June 2014 the activity is banned in Russia a terrorist organization “Right Sector” on Twitter due to events around the Crimea and the refusal of the American company to remove its accounts We raised a number of statements by Russian officials about the need to block the social network in Russia.
The stormy debate on this issue coincided with the discussion of the so-called “law of the bloggers.” Act with August 2014 introduced the concept of “blogger”, “organizer of the dissemination of information” and the requirements for their registration in Roskomnadzor and meet the requirements of agencies to comply with the legislation of Russia, regardless of the place of registration of the operating company and account blogger when information is disseminated in Russian and directed on the population of Russia.
The main requirements were Roskomnadzor to check Twitter social network the ministry, the presence of its representative in Russia and responsiveness agencies that have sent “into the void”, which clearly demonstrated the situation with the accounts of the “right sector».
After the visit of Vice-President of Twitter on global public policy Colin Crowell in Russia and his meeting with the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov accounts “Right Sector” were blocked, which caused a strong criticism of the United States. Also in Russia there was an official representative of Twitter.
After breaking Account Nikolai Nikiforov similar questions might arise to Instagram. Given the rather rigid position of Facebook, which owns the social photo service, in terms of cooperation with the authorities of various countries Instagram could be the threat of blocking.
Potentially Russian users have something to replace Instagram .
One of the contenders to replace Instagram can be called Snapster, which is created by social network “VKontakte”. Thanks to the “VKontakte” one of the most popular photo sharing site in RuNet, fotootvetvleniya appearance is understandable.
According to the functional, he differs little from its overseas counterpart. Very simple interface, an interesting tool for retouching images, and other small features like analog Snapchat protected against screenshots, but he was unable to publish videos.
When you enter with your account “VKontakte” in the tape Snapster automatically loaded not only shots of friends made through the application, but also photos of “VKontakte”. This filter does not get into the tape memes and other abstract pictures.
Thanks to this integration, “VKontakte» Snapster can become a popular alternative to Instagram, at least in RuNet.
Speaking of competitors, Instagram, not to mention Flickr, which is in some respects more convenient first. Many Flickr perceived more as a “cloud” because it provides a terabyte to store images and video, but it is not the only plus service from Yahoo.
It also has a small set of filters, but with a view to finalizing shots better use something more advanced like VSCO. Lovers share the Flickr photos like those that are not “compress” pictures, as likes to Instagram, and is able to directly download images from the camera via a separate application Uploadr for the desktop.
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