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Don’t get me wrong… Durov’s arrest is certainly worrisome. But to me TG is grouped public billboard system and I assume messages are already CC’ed to govts worldwide.

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

My guess is the reason for kidnapping was so that France (and its NATO friends) are added to the CC moving forward.

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Sjors Provoost 1y ago

I'm fully aware Telegram group chats are not e2e encrypted and their off-by-default DM encryption is dodgy.

But there's still SSL and even if the French government had a backdoor for that, it's a lot of work to monitor the Russian internet that way. It's easier when Telegram forwards the chats to them.

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

(And then use a bullshit excuse about facilitating crime to hide the real reason from the public)

Jedi 1y ago

Yep, indeed it's time to move to SimpleX and/or Matrix.

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

I'm already on both :-)

tank 1y ago

TG already has to comply with legal requests either way. Regardless of SSL I hope this is wake up call for anyone using TG for private comms.

Sjors Provoost 1y ago

The sort of data intelligence agencies want is not obtained with legal requests. Also Telegram never complies with those.