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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by krick on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:26PM (#16632251)
Could you please provide some home-reading material on the topic? I understand that the notion of "secure messenger" linked to your phone number and running on a phone is laughable, but it's the first time I hear accusations that my mobile operator can retrieve basically any info from my phone, like actually right now, without breaking a sweat.

Does it apply to all mobile operators or only to american ones?

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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by LinuxBender on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:28PM (#16632268)
There used to be a really good walk through and demo of the software on youtube, but it was pulled down. Perhaps someone has uploaded it again. I will see if I can find it.

IIRC, these debugging tools exist on all carriers and each have their own custom implementations.

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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by snowpanda on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:44PM (#16632427)
Is it this one? https://youtube.com/watch?v=T17XQI_AYNo
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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by LinuxBender on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:48PM (#16632477)
That looks like part of it. :-)
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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by sli on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:45PM (#16632437)
Not just carriers, but police, too. One of StringRay/KingFish's functions is encryption key extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

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