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Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine

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People around the world are using a new website to circumvent 
the Kremlin’s propaganda machine by sending individual messages 
about the war in Ukraine to random people in Russia.

The website was developed by a group of Polish programmers who 
obtained some 20 million cellphone numbers and close to 140 
million email addresses owned by Russian individuals and 
companies. The site randomly generates numbers and addresses 
from those databases and allows anyone anywhere in the world to 
message them, with the option of using a pre-drafted message in 
Russian that calls on people to bypass President Vladimir 
Putin’s censorship of the media.

Since it was launched on March 6, thousands of people across the 
globe, including many in the U.S., have used the site to send 
millions of messages in Russian, footage from the war, or images 
of Western media coverage documenting Russia’s assault on 
civilians, according to Squad303, as the group that wrote the 
tool calls itself.

The initiative is one among a number of efforts, mainly by 
Western media organizations and governments, that are trying to 
puncture the tight controls Mr. Putin’s government has imposed 
within Russia on reporting about the conflict, which Russian 
media are banned from describing as a war.

The website 1920.in, developed by a group of Polish programmers 
known as Squad303, allows anyone anywhere in the world to 
message cellphones and email addresses of random Russian 
individuals and companies.

https://1920.in/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/using-a-new-cyber-tool-westerners-
have-been-texting-russians-about-the-war-in-ukraine-
11647100803?mod=trending_now_news_4

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Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202203.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2022-03-13 12:10 +0100
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