LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) – When Antony Rudkovsky was about 15, he began to teach himself how to build virtual private networks (VPNs) to access Internet content unavailable in Russia.
At first, the young programmer just wanted to listen to music on the Spotify streaming app in his bedroom in Nizhny Novgorod, a city roughly 270 miles (430 km) east of Moscow.
Three years later, Rudkovsky, now 18, snagged $1,200 â the biggest share of the prize money â at a competition last month organised by a civil society group to design a VPN to evade Russia’s censors.
“I’m not a very political person by nature, but I don’t think that violating basic human freedoms â the freedom to express oneself and get information â is the right thing,” Rudkovsky said in an interview from GdaĆsk, Poland, where his family moved shortly before the war began. “People will get further and further from reality.”
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