That or he is stupid, had big hubris and thought he would get away with it just because his passport had different name on it. Since should he have gotten past Finland, he would have likely been caught in France or so on. Whomever (likely suspects would be Ukrainian or American intelligence) tipped off Finnish law enforcemen could have just as easily have later on tipped of French security services “hey this guy is in Nice, wanna go arrest a war criminal?”.

Ehh apparently laying low and trying to use it as transit route. He was on his way to Nice in France. As I remember he had false papers for false identity and there is a Russian minority in Finland, so he was trying to blend in as traveling route. Apparently supposed super patriot didn’t like living in Russia.

Got caught at border check. I think there was intelligence tip off or something, though obviously authorities have been tight lipped exactly how they noticed him. He was travelling under false name Russian passport and that was the initial arrest. Traveling with false papers and violating Schengen wide entry ban issued to his actual identity.

Yan Petrovsky alias Voislav Torden is Russian. He was sentenced in Finland since that is where he was caught (Helsinki Airport actually trying to transit through the country) and Supreme Court of Finland decided it wasn’t legal to extradite to Ukraine due to prison conditions and due process concerns. So instead the case was brought in Finland by Finnish prosecutors.

They decided it already couple years ago. However refresh cycles are such, that only now it starts to arrive to times where changes physically manifest. Another thing which they already said back then and kinda apologised for alas sorry, changes have to wait until next refresh or next generation of the vehicle depending on timing.

Like I guess this is official official now, but design team lead or someone like that said ages ago they would be going back to more physical buttons.

Because they can’t without backdooring the software? Just like they also refuse to co-operate with Swedish government and threatened to leave the market should Sweden try to force them.

You know Russian spies can also use TOR onion routing and so on.

As for phishing there is nothing Signal can do about someone scanning a signal contact sharing QR and adding it to their contracts list beyond informative “hey are you really sure, really really sure you want to add this contact”. If user trusts someone they shouldn’t, no amount of app policy protections help. Or maybe they manage to shish them to scan and approve “share account to another device”. Again nothing Signal can do about that.