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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by realusername on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:23AM (#16857015)
It's just that Telegram is the most used one in Russia so they proceed by targeting this one first but don't worry they will target the other ones after.
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by konart on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:26AM (#16857319)
>Telegram is the most used one in Russia

Not even close. Whatsapp and Viber are much more popular. Telegram was barely 3rd before the ban. [1]

Viber moved their data to Russia, they won't get a ban.

Not sure about Whatsapp.

[1]: https://leonardo.osnova.io/bf345b20-423b-c508-cbc2-15963a7af...

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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by carlmr on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:09AM (#16857540)
WhatsApp is probably backdoored though, so your end to end encryption will only keep your internet café from spying on you, not the governments Facebook is friendly with: https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/13/whatsapp-backdoor...
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by MikusR on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:02AM (#16857846)
You mean the the one reported by theGuardian? The one where they could not find a second security researcher to agree about? The one this public letter was about? https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/security-researchers-call-...
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by carlmr on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:28AM (#16858033)
Oh, never saw that retraction even before when I Googled it.

Good catch!

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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:38AM (#16857373)
Is Viber even End to End encrypted at all?
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by adventured on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:45AM (#16858200)
Supposedly.

https://www.viber.com/blog/2018-01-28/your-data-is-protected...

https://www.viber.com/blog/2016-04-19/giving-our-users-contr...

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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by 0x49d1 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:18AM (#16865084)
Just one remark: Viber/WhatsApp client's code is closed, where is the guarantee that they do not have some "backdoor" to the client's chat right in the application?
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Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc... by realusername on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:35AM (#16857355)
Ah apologies, I thought Telegram was more used than that there.
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