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"If it’s a crime to build privacy tools, there will be no privacy." (lemmy.world)
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"If it’s a crime to build privacy tools, there will be no privacy."

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/29/telegram-founder-pavel-durovs-arrest-privacy-crackdown/

Article: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/29/telegram-founder-pavel-durovs-arrest-privacy-crackdown/

Source: https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1829011242045911263

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It is true that Telegram has not always been a good actor in the privacy space, denigrating genuinely secure-by-design platforms like Signal while granting its own users only limited privacy protection. Telegram chats are not fully or always encrypted, which leaves users exposed to both state surveillance and non-state criminals. Wired magazine has documented how the Russian government has been able to track users down for their apparently private Telegram conversations.

Telegram is not a privacy tool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's their goal, yes.

[–] takeda 4 points 4 months ago

Everything points out that he likely tries to get outside of Russia's influence.

The fact that Russia is most upset about this development (https://youtu.be/5k4hWLXIJQU) and Russian soldiers feverishly started removing their posts showing war crimes from their channels is very telling.