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Re:Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to we... by SXX on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:27AM (#14561275)
While I certainly not fan of custom-made crypto Telegram is also open source and they at least not pretend there some "end to end encryption" except you actually did key exchange on your own.

> Don't suppose this would be one of Putin's patriotic citizen artists spreading fake news do you?

You might be missed it, but Pavel lost business he built to Putin's oligarch friend.

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Re:Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to we... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:27AM (#14561281)
> Pavel lost business he built to Putin's oligarch friend

Source?

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Re:Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to we... by lenovouser on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:33AM (#14561338)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov#Dismissal_from_VK
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Re:Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to we... by nyolfen on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:52PM (#14563269)
the server is closed source
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Re:Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to we... by SXX on Saturday June 17, 2017 @07:12PM (#14578137)
It doesnt matter if server code is proprietary if E2E keys never leave device. And open source server change nothing since you cant verify what code is running on actual production server anyway.

And messages that are not E2E encrypted are unsafe by default.

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