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Re:Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism... by lukan on Sunday August 25, 2024 @01:24PM (#41349226)
"The chats instantly appear after login. "

I agree, that is very convenient. Also for the secret police officer..

I use telegram as social media, but I really would not use it to organize protest somewhere. Then the whole safety depends on whether Durov made a deal with the secret police, or them infiltrating the servers to know everything about anyone involved. What they liked at what time, what pictures they shared, etc.

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Re:Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism... by NayamAmarshe on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:08PM (#41350252)
> them infiltrating the servers to know everything about anyone involved

That's not a possibility. Split-key encryption doesn't allow such a thing to happen.

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Re:Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism... by fsflover on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:45PM (#41350606)
Can you be more specific how the split-key encryption would prevent the Telegram CEO from reading all chats and users' info?
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Re:Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism... by EasyMark on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:23PM (#41351567)
That’s my concern as well, maybe none of the devs have the capability, but if -anyone- does it’s Durov, so why not just grab him under false pretenses and throw the book at him, trying to scare him into compliance with anything they want or face the rest of his life in the worse French prison they can find for him.
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Re:Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism... by lxgr on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:53PM (#41361140)
How does it allow me to access all my chats from a new device then, without providing any encryption key?
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