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#RealityCheck on the Frontlines of Freedom | CNN New Day | November 10, 2021

Saving American democracy & liberties isn’t just for Americans. It’s a model and inspiration for the rest of the world—and a signal to authoritarians when it falters. Great segment by @JohnAvlon. #FrontlinesOfFreedom @Renew_Democracy https://t.co/VhLfm9iKJr

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) November 10, 2021

Our Generation Will Either Renew Democracy––Or Lose it Forever | CNN Opinion | November 8, 2021

If you believe the American system is inherently oppressive and irredeemable, just ask a refugee or dissident about the alternatives. We asked many for @Renew_Democracy‘s Frontlines of Freedom project. My CNN #voicesoffreedom op-ed. https://t.co/t8IzbKybmz

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) November 8, 2021

You can read the original article at CNN Opinion.

By Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and the Renew Democracy Initiative, which recently launched the Frontlines of Freedom project. He is a former world chess champion. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.

(CNN)On August 17, 2012, I was speaking to journalists outside the courthouse where three members of the punk collective Pussy Riot were being sentenced for criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin in a music video filmed in a church. Suddenly, I was grabbed by the police. Videos captured the moment they tossed me, legs in the air, into the back of a police van. When I opened the unlocked door to ask what I was being charged with, they responded with a flurry of fists.

Garry KasparovBut I was lucky. Several of my colleagues and allies — including journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — suffered bullets, not bruises. And many others have been shuffled in and out of jail.Indeed, this is the ongoing reality for those who choose to challenge the Russian government. Though Putin has denied responsibility for the murder of many of these dissidents, it’s quite clear that under his leadership calls for democracy are met with censorship, and dissent is met with force.Hailing from the Soviet Union, a repressive regime and precursor to Putin’s Russia, I have always understood that democracy is a privilege — one that must constantly be defended. But over the last few years, I have watched with growing alarm as many Americans lose faith in their democratic system. According to one University of Cambridge study, most Americans said they were dissatisfied with democracy in 2020 — more than twice as many as in 2008, before the global economic crash.Because democratic sentiment is weak, the rights to vote and free speech are more vulnerable in my adopted home of America today than at any point in my life. And so I founded the Renew Democracy Initiative with leaders and thinkers from across the political spectrum to push back against America’s growing illiberalism — and to highlight the experiences of those like me, who have been at the forefront of fighting for democracy for decades.At the height of my chess career in the 1980s, I was fortunate to travel internationally — even if I was always escorted by KGB agents. I peered around the Iron Curtain and saw the American republic as the proverbial shining city on a hill. Though the many dissidents featured in this series and I are separated by nationality, ethnicity, religion and language, we are all united by a belief in the American values of pluralism, tolerance and democracy. Anyone who takes these things for granted — be they in the United States or elsewhere — risks losing them. The fiercest fight of the 21st century — to save democracyFree and fair elections, a core tenet of democracy, are a privilege. When I organized The Other Russia coalition in 2006 to oppose Putin’s dictatorship through nonviolent marches and rallies, we held opposition party primaries because we wanted the Russian people to have a chance at participating in free and fair elections, unknown in the Putin era.But, today, some would-be American authoritarians are passing laws to suppress voting, gerrymandering voting districts and creating the conditions whereby partisan officials can potentially overrule the people’s vote.Freedom of speech is also a privilege. As a young chess grandmaster, I had to guard my actions, my words, even my thoughts. Everyone in the Soviet Union, from children to chess champions, had to censor themselves. The Gulag Archipelago awaited anyone who dared to speak up.But, today, far too many people in America want to constrain public discourse to what is socially acceptable at that particular moment in time. According to one recent study, four out of 10 Americans now engage in self-censorship to ensure social acceptance.Obviously, angry Twitter mobs are not equivalent to Soviet-style censorship — and they certainly do not come with the same level of risk, but they both have a similar aim: to silence democratic discourse. Democracy may or may not die in darkness, but it certainly dies in silence.All around the world, demagogues are pushing the same dangerous message: democracy is broken and should be discarded. Their attacks on democracy are only aided — even if unintentionally — by America seemingly losing interest in protecting the liberal, democratic order it helped create.The recent disaster in Kabul is exactly what “America First” looks like. Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is pointing at Afghanistan to show my pro-democracy friends in Taiwan that America will not protect them. When you fail to protect democratic values at home, you cannot protect them abroad. And when you decline to protect democracy abroad, democracy at home becomes more vulnerable to a vicious backsliding cycle.In the last few weeks, we have watched countless Afghan citizens risk their lives for a chance to come to the US. The thousands of Afghan refugees who have touched down on American soil know the value of freedom because they have seen its absence. They will join the generations of immigrant-patriots who built this country. For those who believe the American system is inherently oppressive and irredeemable, just ask a refugee or dissident about the alternatives.When I protested outside that Moscow courthouse in 2012, or marched through those dark and deep December 2011 nights, arm in arm with Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, Nemtsov, and our compatriots, I was marching for the right to vote in legitimate elections, the right to free and open debate, the right to democracy. We were marching for the right to be heard.Democracy is a privilege, and we all have a responsibility to defend it. The American republic may have its flaws, but there is nothing wrong with American democracy that cannot be fixed by American democracy. Today, we can either be the generation that renews democracy, or loses it forever.Take it from me, and the other dissidents on this project: the stakes could not be higher.

Kasparov to America: ‘Just Don’t Get Crazy’ | Q&A: Ricochet | November 8, 2021

Thank you for always supporting the cause, Jay. It’s natural for Americans to ask what they have to learn about their country or democracy from foreigners, but many of us have seen the other side and know not to take freedom for granted. https://t.co/TopvzcgmNl

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) November 9, 2021

Listen to my appearance on Jay Nordlinger’s Q&A Podcast at the Ricochet Audio Network.

“Garry Kasparov is the chess champion and democracy champion. He was Jay’s very first guest on “Q&A,” in 2015. For 255 months, Kasparov was the world’s No. 1 in chess. As Jay points out, Tiger Woods, in his career so far, has been No. 1 in golf for 158 months. Kasparov is chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and also chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative. RDI has a new program called “Frontlines of Freedom.” In his latest conversation with Jay, Kasparov talks of many things, not excluding chess. But his main message is: The world needs America. The world needs America to be strong, sane, and democratic. “Just don’t get crazy.” Curb radicalism, coming from whatever direction. Remember who you are, and what you stand for.”

Garry Kasparov: In Chess, We Play by the Rules; Dictators Don’t | CNN | November 8, 2021

Watch my interview with CNN on RDI’s #FrontlinesofFreedom series here!

Garry Kasparov is diamond 5 in Hearthstone, but reckons ‘if I make a push I can go to legend rank’ | PCGamer | November 5, 2021

Chess meets Hearthstone

Think we can convince @Kasparov63 to play Battlegrounds?https://t.co/1tS6KNMLZK

— Liquid Slysssa (@Slysssa) November 5, 2021

You can read the original article at PCGamer.

By Rich Stanton

“Garry Kasparov may be the best chess player in history, but it turns out he’s partial to throwing down in Hearthstone’s tavern, where he of course faces considerably more RNG than during the day job. The former world champion recently spoke to PC Gamer to promote the launch of his new masterclass on Kasparovchess.com and, during our chat, talk turned to his intense dislike of the sneaky Rogue class. Kasparov also told us about dabbling in other Blizzard games, like Warcraft.

PCGamer: You mentioned Hearthstone: Do you play?

Garry Kasparov: Yeah! I was a part of a new campaign for it but yes, I do play Hearthstone. Diamond five!

Impressive.

Unfortunately no! To go to the legend rank you need to spend more time. I don’t have more time but I have many, many decks. Because yeah you have to be fully concentrated. If I make a push I can go to legend rank but diamond five I get fairly easily.

What do you play? Are you a Rogue?

No Rogue, no Mage! I think the Rogue is probably the strongest deck as of now because you know, it could basically kill you on turn seven from hand. So this is 30+ plus damage if the combination comes up. But it’s something that requires your work. So this is my play: It’s a Libram Paladin, yeah I play Libram, or a Taunt Druid. So there’s those two, though I did try my own, you know, customised my Priest… just try to play some interesting builds but again, it’s at a fairly primitive level. So sure: Libram and Druid. I tried Pirate, the Pirate Warrior, but somehow I think it’s not good, it didn’t fit.

[Ed’s note: Since we spoke to Kasparov, Hearthstone has seen the release of The Deadmines mini-set, which has boosted the power of Pirate Warrior substantially—partly thanks to the monstrosity that is Mr Smite.]

When did you play Warcraft?

I played when my eldest son, he was at the age of six, seven, eight, so that was 2003-2004 and, yeah, we needed a computer game. So I played, maybe 2005, we played WarCraft 3 and Frozen Throne. So I remember just you know, I told him okay, you you don’t play on that [without me]. That’s the rule! [laughs] So we did a few campaigns, and I think his favourite was the orcs, that’s what he used anyway. I think my favourite was alliance but I’m not sure. Yes, it was a long time ago.

But again, those are the games that require, you know, speed. It’s dexterity of hands. So that’s why I like games like Hearthstone better because it’s more strategic and you still have a time limit. But it’s just about strategies, about making calculations and about understanding connections. And again, what I like is this unbalanced value, so that’s why just, you know, you change things and you can have endless combinations that could give you a chance to beat even a strong opponent.

What’s your favourite video game?

I don’t have a favourite! [laughs] I just, look, I guess it’s right now like this: I play Hearthstone. I found it, I discovered it in doing this commercial with Blizzard, and that’s what I play now.

You can check out the  full masterclass at kasparovchess.com , and  can read our longer interview with Kasparov about his history with computers and chess here.

Chess legend Garry Kasparov warns humans a greater threat than AI | Times of Israel | November 5, 2021

You can read the original article at the Times of Israel.

By Yassine Khiri

“The Kremlin critic, who famously played against a supercomputer, says he’s more worried by what ‘dictatorial, totalitarian countries and the terrorists’ may do with the technology

LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer — but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that it’s humans who pose the real threat.

Kasparov has remained fascinated by technology since his famous matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in the 1990s.

When he wasn’t busy taking on 10 simultaneous chess opponents at Lisbon’s Web Summit this week — handily beating them all in 45 minutes — he spoke to AFP about AI’s growing role in society.

“We live in a world where machines are playing bigger and bigger roles. Whether you like it or not, it’s happening,” he said.

“There is simply no evidence that machines are threatening us. The real danger comes not from killer robots but from people — because people still have a monopoly on evil.”

The true threat, the Kremlin critic says, comes from “the dictatorial, totalitarian countries and the terrorists who will use this technology to harm us.”

Garry Kasparov plays simultaneous chess games at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 3, 2021. (Carlos Costa/AFP)

While Terminator-style robo-assassins remain the stuff of science fiction, human rights groups are already pushing for international laws to restrict the use of so-called “killer robots,” predicting that AI will transform warfare in the years to come.

At the Web Summit, meanwhile, tech gurus have spent the week discussing more positive potential applications of AI, from intelligent chatbots that boost our mental health to sorting plastic waste.

‘It will be painful’

Kasparov might be described as a techno-optimist, but he does not totally dismiss the fears of AI naysayers who worry that robots will replace jobs once done by humans, from factory workers to truck drivers.

“It will be painful, no doubt about it. I don’t want to sound callous — people will lose jobs. But look at the big picture,” he said. “Humanity always wins with more technology brought in.”

He pointed to the speed at which vaccines were developed in response to COVID-19, a lightning effort compared to work fighting earlier diseases, as something that made him hopeful about the power of innovation.

But he called for better regulation worldwide to help limit the negative impact of social media and other evolving technologies.

“What I want is a good public debate that will end up with recommendations to the government,” he said. “Because it’s governments who could make legislation to force corporations to start doing things that will minimize the damage.”

An illustrative image of robot hackers; the use of artificial intelligence in cyber security. (Iaremenko; iStock by Getty Images)

He spoke amid growing international calls for the immense power of tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to be reined in.

Facebook in particular has faced intense criticism over leaked documents showing that company executives knew about their sites’ potential to harm people’s safety on numerous fronts.

Kasparov, the son of a Jewish father, suggested that authorities have struggled to regulate fast enough to keep up with the social media revolution partly “because governments look at big tech as a source of income.”

However we end up regulating social networks, he predicted that no legislation can totally eliminate the harm it causes, from hate speech to making teenagers feel bad about themselves.

“Anybody who tells you we can eliminate it, it’s absolutely impossible,” he said. “Because social platforms are the kind of business where conflict is built-in.””

Garry Kasparov on his new chess site’s masterclass, and what it takes from Yoda | PCGamer | November 4, 2021

You can see the original interview at PCGamer.

By Rich Stanton

“Garry Kasparov may be the best chess player in history, and not just because he’s the last world champion to have reigned before the machines took over. Kasparov himself played a major part in the latter story: as well as being involved with chess software throughout his long career, he would go on to defeat the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 before, a year later, losing the rematch.

Kasparov played professionally from the early 1980s and became the youngest-ever world chess champion after defeating Anatoly Karpov in 1985, a title he held until a loss to Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. Kasparov played professionally until 2005 and retired as the world’s top-ranked player.

Part of Kasparov’s career has always been his involvement in teaching young players, whether through the non-profit Kasparov Chess Foundation or the newly launched Kasparovchess.com—an all-encompassing chess site that includes lessons, a playing environment, documentaries, live tournaments, and now a masterclass series from the champ himself.

PC Gamer sat down with Kasparov to discuss his new masterclass, and what lesson he himself took from Master Yoda. Several of the lessons have been released for free and can be found throughout the article.

PC Gamer: You did a masterclass a while back. What was different this time around?

Garry Kasparov: You mention the other project, that’s nearly five years ago, that masterclass. That was a multi-hours progress programme that was built as a master class around advisors and students, where I could talk to them and it creates an atmosphere of teachers and experts, you know, telling you what to do, what not to do, how to evaluate the position. So I worked hard just to find the message that could work for people from different strengths categories, but this is different.

There’s a different level of expertise and this time I decided to do something quite different. So it’s the way I would look at telling stories about chess: still, you have similar components, but it’s no longer, you know, a teaching process, it’s not like being in a classroom. It’s more like Garry Kasparov’s chess experience through the lenses of his life, events and best games. And I’m always hopeful there are useful advices but it’s more like a personal story and it’s never been done this way before, and some of the stories are very fresh because I never told them at length and I think that’s what makes this masterclass, nearly 10 hours of recording, it’s unique because it’s much more personal than anything I did before.

At one point you discuss the lesson you took from Master Yoda, what was that?

Yeah, of course, the lesson is just it’s a great impression. It’s about controlling emotions. It made a big impression on me because it was the first Star Wars movie, actually probably the first Hollywood movie I saw on the big screen. But in 1980 we travelled to Malta, I was a member of a solid team. And after Malta we flew back to Moscow via Rome. And we had to stop and run for two days. Because no regular flights. We could spend two days as we wished. And while I think almost everybody went to see the Sistine chapel and other great places in Rome, I walked around, but I also wanted to see the movie.

So that’s The Empire Strikes Back. And my English was pretty lousy at the time, but still, I could understand it. And then of course, I rewatched many times. It’s all about you know, it’s controlling emotions. It’s Master Yoda telling Luke Skywalker that you know, unless you know how to control it, you will never succeed. That’s something that stuck in my memory.

One masterclass goes into the King’s Indian: you played that opening a lot in your career, what did you like about it?

Yeah, it’s very difficult to actually go way back to the centre, and just to understand the attraction of certain openings. I think it’s just sharpness. More likely, it’s the high level of uncertainty. So because it created unbalanced positions. Yes I knew that I was giving, you know, just an edge—by the way, you look at computers today, and they just, you know, they immediately say, Oh, you’re just losing. But, you know, 40-50 years ago, nobody cared. So it’s all about creating positions that could offer you opportunities to turn the tables. I played King’s Indian to the end of my path, almost to the end of my professional career.

Yeah. Probably less, less in the last few years. But yeah, I think I actually stopped playing it late 90s, I had a painful defeat from Kramnik in 1997 in Novgorod [laughs] and I thought, okay, maybe it’s enough. But this opening, you know, alongside with Banani, with King’s Indian and then Grunfeld. Those are my typical choices. But at the same time, you know, I knew that to become world champion, I had to look for classical openings, you know, and so, I played them. I played all sorts of openings, always looking for new ideas, though again: Just putting bishop on g7? Yeah, it’s still my child’s passion that hasn’t died.

You can check out the  full masterclass at kasparovchess.com , and  can read our longer interview with Kasparov about his history with computers and chess here.”

Garry Kasparov says Facebook’s decision to axe facial recognition is stupid | Neowin | November 4, 2021

You can read the original article at Neowin.

By Paul Hill

“Speaking to CNBC at the Web Summit tech conference, Garry Kasparov, a former chess champion, has said Facebook’s decision to axe facial recognition technology is stupid. Kasparov, who is now a vocal opponent of repressive governments, said it’s shocking that companies in America and Europe are being forced follow regulations that make them abandon new features for their products and services.

CNBC quotes Kasparov as saying:

“It’s bowing to this public outrage. Personally, I think it’s stupid for a simple reason: Facebook can shut it down, the Chinese will not. Any technological feature that’s available, for me, it doesn’t make any sense to block it. It’s insane to think that in the era of global internet, you can actually start forcing companies in America or in Europe to follow these rules and to abandon new features.”

Facebook has a long history of strong-arming its users into adopting new features they’re not very comfortable with; it’s facial recognition system was one such feature. It was introduced several years ago and while people were notified, it’s not very easy to disable if you change your mind and people may have even forgotten that they’d allowed it to run on their profile in the first place.

The feature does have some nice features which will be missed though, for example, it enabled better automatic alt text description to be applied to images for people who are blind or partially sighted. Since disabling facial recognition, Facebook has asked users to write their own alt text descriptions to assist those who can’t see very well.

Additionally, the facial recognition feature was used to notify users if their picture was uploaded to Facebook without their permission. This feature probably came in handy in quite a number of cases where photos were being used maliciously but now that it has been disabled bad actors can get away more with misusing photos and videos.”

Interview with CNBC at Web Summit 2021 | CNBC | November 4, 2021

You can read the original article at CNBC.

By Sam Shead

“LISBON, Portugal — Facebook is wrong to shut down its facial recognition system, according to Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation.

The decision, announced Tuesday, is “stupid” Kasparov told CNBC at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon.

“It’s bowing to this public outrage,” Kasparov said Wednesday, just days after Facebook rebranded itself to Meta. “Personally, I think it’s stupid for a simple reason: Facebook can shut it down, the Chinese will not.”

Facebook did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.

Born into what was then the Soviet Union, Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22. In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer: IBM’s Deep Blue.

Today, he says he is pro-technology and against overregulation.

“Any technological feature that’s available, for me, it doesn’t make any sense to block it,” Kasparov said. Privacy campaigners would strongly disagree.

He added: “It’s insane to think that in the era of global internet, you can actually start forcing companies in America or in Europe to follow these rules and to abandon new features.”

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov speaks during 2018′s Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal.Pedro Fiuza | NurPhoto | Getty Images

The decision to shut down the facial recognition system on Facebook comes amid a barrage of news reports over the past month after Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower, released a trove of internal company documents to news outlets, lawmakers and regulators.

Facebook said in a blogpost that there are “many concerns” about the use of facial recognition technology in society, noting how regulators are still in the process of providing a clear set of rules governing its use.

“Amid this ongoing uncertainty, we believe that limiting the use of facial recognition to a narrow set of use cases is appropriate,” the social media giant said.

Ending the use of the face recognition system is part of “a company-wide move away from this kind of broad identification,” Facebook said.

In 2012, Facebook acquired Israeli start-up Face.com for reportedly under $100 million, snapping up a team of developers who focused on facial recognition for mobile apps. The deal came just months after Facebook acquired Instagram, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest effort at the time to move the business to mobile.

In July 2020, the company agreed to pay a $650 million settlement after it was sued for collecting and storing biometric data without first getting user consent, which is prohibited by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

– Additional reporting by CNBC’s Salvador Rodriguez.”

“Taking Back Control of the Internet” | Avast @ Web Summit | November 3, 2021

I had to have a little fun with the title, because we have never had control of the internet and never will, even should we want that. And who is “we” anyway?! Security and rights online are always evolving with tech & society. It’s work and advocacy. https://t.co/BfECk3xyOI

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) November 3, 2021

The following is the October 21 press release promoting this discussion. You can see the event’s webpage at the Web Summit Conference 2021.

“Avast CEO, Ondrej Vlcek, and Avast Security Ambassador, Garry Kasparov, will discuss how digital freedom can be unlocked for all

PRAGUE, Czech Republic and LISBON, Portugal, Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy, today announced that Ondrej Vlcek, Chief Executive Officer at Avast, and Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation in New York and Avast Security Ambassador, will discuss how to unlock the potential of the digital world at the annual Web Summit Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The talk titled “Taking back control of the internet” will take place on November 3rd at 2:00 p.m. Western European Time, and will also cover Avast’s mission to establish digital freedom as a fundamental human right.

Avast new logo to be strictly only used from 16 September 2021 onwards (PRNewsfoto/Avast Software, Inc.)

Since its foundation three decades ago, the free and unlimited space of the world wide web has evolved into a tool that is providing us with advances, yet simultaneously endangering our rights and privacy. It is time to speak up. Digital inequality exists, but few among us have the fortitude to discuss it. Ondrej Vlcek and Garry Kasparov will address these issues and discuss how the internet must be changed to fit our society.

On November 4th at 3:20 p.m. WET Garry Kasparov will also participate in a fireside chat to discuss his role as a consultant on the hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. He will be joined by an industry expert who will contribute to the discussion about bringing stories to life on screen. Later that afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. Garry Kasparov will also play a simultaneous chess exhibition with 20 selected participants of the conference.

About Garry Kasparov, Avast Security Ambassador
Garry Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985 and was the world’s top-rated player for 20 years. He first discovered the potential of AI during his famous matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. Ever since, he’s spoken about future tech, most recently as Avast’s security ambassador. His matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov and Deep Blue popularized chess and machine intelligence in unprecedented ways.

About Ondrej Vlcek, Avast CEO
Ondrej Vlcek serves as Chief Executive Officer for Avast. Together with his senior management team, he executes on Avast’s vision to deliver people-centric security and spearheads the Company’s product innovation program for emerging consumer technology categories, including AI and identity protection. Previously, he held the combined position of Executive Vice-President & General Manager, Consumer, and Chief Technology Officer. In this role, he led Avast’s transformation from a traditional PC antivirus vendor to the leading provider of a full portfolio of protection, privacy, and performance products for consumers.

About Avast:
Avast (LSE:AVST), a FTSE 100 company, is a global leader in digital security and privacy, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. With over 435 million users online, Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands that protect people from threats on the internet and the evolving IoT threat landscape. The company’s threat detection network is among the most advanced in the world, using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to detect and stop threats in real time. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, SE Labs and others. Avast is a member of Coalition Against Stalkerware, No More Ransom, and the Internet Watch Foundation. Visit: www.avast.com.

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