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bne:TMT Security risk reported
for Estonian ID cards
The Estonian authorities have taken action to address a potential security vulnerability that could affect the use of the country’s ID cards and digital IDs.
The risk — which is so far only theoretical — affects anyone with Estonian ID card and digital ID issued after October 16, 2014, namely around 750,000 people or almost half the Estonian population.
The news is embarrassing for Tallinn which has sought to pioneer e-government services, as well as becoming the first country in the world to offer an “e-residency” programme, under which govern- ment-issued digital IDs are available to anyone in the world.
Tehran police have shut down the Aladdin Mobile Phone Passage, kicking out all shop owners in the latest crackdown on the condemned building which in recent years has gained an illegally built extra floor, according to fararu.com.
The “Aladdin Bazaar” was during the 1990s and 2000s the only mobile phone market in Iran, with independent retailers selling every brand possible, something made possible by the vast majority of its phones being smuggled in suitcases from Dubai and Iraqi Kurdistan.
The more than twenty-year-old mobile market has been criticised by several government and Tehran officials for failing to meet the most basic building regulation standards.
Russian law enforcement authorities have made their first cryptocurrency-related arrests, detaining three people on suspicion of illegally trading RUB500mn or around $9mn worth of bitcoin, Vedomosti daily reported.
Cryptocurrencies have been high up in the Russian headlines
with the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) joining the growing Russian blockchain craze and preparing infrastructure for a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Blockchain technology has drawn increased attention from the Russian authorities as a promising development field, but the authorities need to face up to the grey zone of enforcement in the field.
Police shut down Tehran’s oldest mobile phone bazaar
Russia makes first cryptocurrency arrest