When Pavel Durov, a Russian tech entrepreneur who founded the Telegram messenger app, was arrested in Paris on Aug. 24 on accusations of allowing terrorism to blossom on his platform, Ukraine watched it closely. He was charged by a Paris court on Aug. 28. In Ukraine, the charges against Durov
  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    An initially Russian company, which moved to Dubai, which is most popular by all sorts of right wing Russian propagandists and used by the Russian military. Chances are pretty good that it is controlled by Russia at this point.

    If you want a better alternative try Signal or XMPP.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        2 months ago

        There’s also the part where they cooperate with Russian authorities but not western authorities (which is why Pavel Durov was arrested), or how their half hidden end2end encryption mode used to have a mechanism to make it almost impossible to detect a Person in the Middle Attack until they got called out.

        If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably not a whale.

        • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          I’m not saying I don’t agree with the speculation. It’s just some things get passed around as facts, but it’s a conspiracy at most.

      • doo@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        The facts are:

        • russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
        • eventually they “convinced” durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
        • in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything

        Yes, I don’t have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.