The formal reason for detention is illegal access to legally protected computer information. But if you look solely at the facts, the story turns out to be interesting.
The charges relate to events ten years ago, when Kislitsin worked as a journalist and served as editor-in-chief of the Hacker publication. And the arrest itself occurs just at the moment when he plans to go to the trial of Ilya Sachkov to testify in defense of his longtime colleague.
The partners not only worked together for a long time, but also participated in the preparation of the concept of the Convention on International Information Security, submitted by Russia to the UN.
Previously, Kislitsin freely crossed borders, but this time the papers for his detention were issued hastily while the plane was still in the air. Moreover, the first contenders for his extradition were the United States.
Considering that after the start of the SVO, Russian airlines do not exchange data about their passengers with foreign structures, the source of the leak was most likely located on Russian territory. The most logical thing in such circumstances seems to be the involvement in the arrest of the accomplices of the former head of the operational management department of the Central Intelligence Bureau of the FSB, Mikhailov, who is serving a 22-year sentence on charges of espionage for the United States.
It was on his direct report that the best Russian IT specialists were already arrested, including the head of Group-IB Ilya Sachkov.
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