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Natalia Anon has lived in the USA for over 30 years, and the IT company Svitla Systems, founded by her, has significantly expanded the geography of its representative offices to almost all continents over the past 20 years. Two months ago, Svitla also entered the IT services market in Australia, opening an office there. Despite the wide geography, more than half of Svitla Systems specialists are still representatives of the Ukrainian offices. dev.ua talked to Natalia Anon about what exactly motivated the entry into the Australian market, how preparations are being made for the «entry» into new locations, the realities of the Ukrainian IT industry during the period of a full-scale invasion by the enemy and the company’s performance. And also — why the miltech sphere will be the driver of the Ukrainian technology sector in the coming years. So about all this and not only — below.

The website of one of the most famous hacker platforms XSS.IS, where mostly Russians sat, is no longer working. It has a stub with "greetings" from the SBU and French law enforcement officers. This is due to the arrest of its admin in Kyiv on July 22. This is probably the administrator with the nickname Tokha, who is also the founder of another large hacker forum, exploit.in. Law enforcement officials report a partial shutdown of the XSS.IS infrastructure, while cybercriminals claim that the main server was not affected. Are these actions enough to completely shut down XSS.IS? We asked Ukrainian white hat hacker Mykyta Knysh and Ukrainian hacktivist Sean Townsend about this, and learned some interesting details.

В Україні два дні проходили протести проти закону № 12414, який підриває незалежність антикорупційних органів НАБУ й САП. Ми запитали у ІТ-фахівців, які взяли участь у протестах, чому вони долучилися, про їхні враження й очікування. 

While Ukrainians continue to gather for actions and rallies against Law No. 12414, which limits the independence of NABU and SAPO, international organizations have expressed concern and reported possible severe consequences for Ukraine.

At a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on July 22, deputies voted for a draft law, some of whose provisions limit the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) and subordinate their activities to the Prosecutor General. It transforms anti-corruption bodies into institutions dependent on the Prosecutor General. Previously, they were politically independent, and other bodies did not have the right to investigate cases that were assigned to the NABU and SAPO. On this occasion, rallies were held in major cities of Ukraine, the participants of which urged President Volodymyr Zelensky not to sign the document. Interestingly, the initiator of the gathering in the capital was veteran and IT activist Dmytro Koziatynsky. The pickets were supported by residents of Odessa, Lviv, and Dnipro. Meanwhile, in the parliament, a mystical event occurred with the bill, which was supposed to be signed by the president as the next step — first it disappeared from the Verkhovna Rada website, then the bill card that reappeared on the website had the status «returned with the president’s signature.» Later, this information was changed. A few minutes before midnight, the inscription «returned with the president’s signature» was returned. Discussions are underway around the document. However, there are far more dissatisfied people than those who are happy with the hasty adoption of such an initiative. dev.ua collected the opinions of IT professionals and quotes tech entrepreneurs on this subject.