Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to work from

Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by lawl on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:01AM (#7639187)

Switzerland is fairly expensive though [0]. Might not be a problem for Pavel Durov, but maybe for his engineers?

Anyways I would have expected more than a simple gmail address from someone developing a crypto messenger. A GPG Public Key too much to ask?

Otherwise Switzerland is indeed quite a nice play for businesses. Founding a company takes about half an hour. So that should count as fairly unbureaucratic. Plus Google etc. have their Europe headquarter here.

[0] Source: I live there.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by higherpurpose on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:21AM (#7639229)

You're talking about a "crypto messenger" that doesn't have end-to-end encryption enabled by default (and is therefore insecure by default, just like Whatsapp and other apps like that), so maybe you're expecting too much of him.

Germany is a good second choice after Switzerland, I think. Iceland would still be my #1 choice for Wikileaks-like companies, but I don't think Telegram is in that situation, and they might prefer a warmer weather anyway.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by egeozcan on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:46AM (#7639306)

Germany? As an expat in Germany, the amount of bureaucracy here is sucking the life out of me. YMMV, though.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by sdfjkl on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:11AM (#7639704)

As a German expat who moved to the UK to start a business, I second this. Incorporating (a GmbH) in Germany would've been a major nightmare compared to the UK. Not that I'd recommend the UK as a good location at this point.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by donatzsky on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:24AM (#7639478)

The problem is, the further south you go, the more the red tape tends to pile up.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by jmnicolas on Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:13AM (#7640038)

Germany is a NATO country and might obey requests from NSA.

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Re:Telegram team left Russia and looking for a country to wo... by glasz on Thursday April 24, 2014 @06:45AM (#7639303)

what makes you think that way about germany?

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