Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
by exceptione on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:19AM
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Let me introduce you how 1-1 chats are not encrypted by the default, that this option is quite hidden, that many/most Telegram users don´t even know about "private chats", and that their particular hand-rolled encryption scheme has been questioned by encryption experts for many years.
Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
by 3np on Sunday August 25, 2024 @07:45AM
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> What details are you assuming Telegram are sitting on, besides the data law enforcement already collected?
Message contents (vast majority of TG chats are not E2EE) and additional metadata seem pretty desirable?
Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
by Arnt on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:54AM
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So he was... but there's this coincidence... https://nitter.poast.org/RALee85/status/1827459553526448307#...
Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
by twelve40 on Sunday August 25, 2024 @08:16AM
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The person who wrote the text in the screenshot (a typical sensationalist "milblogger") most likely is not informed enough to realize that this software was written in Berlin, hosted in the Netherlands and its code is continuously audited and gate-kept by Apple which can throw them out of the Appstore for non-compliance with local laws any second. It has most likely survived for a whole decade by cooperating from day 1; any data of interest is already being handed over to whoever is asking, otherwise they would have been banned from the stores many years ago.
What details are you assuming Telegram are sitting on, besides the data law enforcement already collected?
Durov got arrested for insufficient moderation of public channels, so my guess is that law enforcement would be able to get exactly the same data as Telegram themselves sit on.
But it's hard to get a full picture without it going to public courts, for now we can only go on what's being reported.