Re:Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choi...
by balaz on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:53AM
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Telegram is not related to the government of Russia.
Re:Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choi...
by buyucu on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:09AM
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Telegram's founders are in exile from Russia after the Russian government took over their previous venture (Vkontakte). It is misinformation to associate Telegram with the Russian government.
Re:Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choi...
by throwaway74354 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:31AM
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Nikolai Durov lives in Saint Petersburg and works for the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pavel Durov had visited Russia multiple time since his "exile".
The public-facing story around Telegram is performative PR, which could be explained by the exact reasons listed in the parent comments: association with the Russian state had hindered VK growth besides the CIS region.
Re:Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choi...
by buyucu on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:11PM
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I can't verify this anywhere. The latest information appears to be that Nikolai Durov lives in Dubai.
Re:Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choi...
by throwaway74354 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:47PM
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Wikipedia quotes https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cdjwm9eew0xo , which uses this article as a source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6920516
It is more of a question, who would you rather read your messages ? USA or Russia ?
Because even if there is E2E encryption and an open source client, unless you review it and compile it yourself, there is nothing to say that your messages are relayed to some agency's datacenter after decryption. The USA has all the legal framework necessary to achieve that with the tremendous power of the "intelligence" agencies, and Russia.. well.. doesn't even need that.