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I don't care much for the guy, but the fact he gets arrested for the service is a bad sign for private messaging in Europe.
I think it's even more of a French thing than an EU thing. France is known for implementing censorship and stuff recently.
If you don't care for the guy, you will nearly certainly lose privat messaging in Europe. Maybe, it's even too late by now.
No. Pavel Durov is a nut and he is not out there saving private communication. Signal is offering the most accessible e2ee messenger right now. Telegram has questionable security on their optional e2ee chats which is also not the default.
But the people trying to save e2ee in europe are activists and politicians. Patrick Breyer has done excellent reporting on the chat control plans of the EU.
Durov is just some dude peddling his mid messenger
Wasn't Signal revealed to have NSA backdoor or I am confusing it with something else?
I think you're confusing it, I haven't heard that at least but it's possible I missed it! Though signals apps and I believe even server code are open source so this would have been tricky to accomplish.
Okay, now I'm wondering, can we actually check if servers run on this published code or modified version?
Signal is offering the most accessible e2ee messenger right now.
Doesn't matter. In the reach of EU, some law about Chat Control. If they make this into law, no provider within the EU will have a choice in this matter.
good thing Signal is US-based. I hope it will remain possible to use their service in the EU though...
This is a global push to destroy systems the government's can't control. He fact he was arrested says everything.
Picture this moment, but in 1994 wherein Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn are taken into custody for developing TCP/IP, a protocol that inadvertently enabled drug dealers to communicate.
You know you are an authoritarian country when you arrest CEOs of messaging apps.
But's not just a messaging app. Telegram is a public forum (non-private and unencrypted btw) where they know crimes are being committed and are taking no action to mitigate them.
If you let people commit crimes in your house you are a criminal. If you own a mall and let people commit crimes in it, you are a criminal. If you own a boat and let people commit crimes in it you are a criminal. Same concept here. Pavel Durov created a public forum and not only allows crime to happen, but lies to people telling them its secure and private.
If I were a tinfoil wearing kind of person, I'd think Pavel was in on the whole thing and helping some 3-letter agency because Telegram has been a "privacy" scam from the beginning and it seems criminals are too dumb to realize they fell for playbook similar to Anom, just on a bigger scale.
Durov, as a citizen of France, recently sent them away when they asked for access, and then flew to them to test the strength of democracy. Imbecility and courage.
It's own fault, you shouldn't have taken the citizenship of this stinking pad... You should have taken the citizenship of the Emirates or India or Brazil, for example... Having French citizenship now is a disgrace.
You don't seem to know what you are talking about. Are you a child or on a primary school or something? Read more.
He has dual citizenship - French and UAE.
I was too lazy to just google it, but he has citizenship in Russia, the UAE, France, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
But Telegram does give data to law enforcements afaik. So even that is not enough nowadays? Even more sad to see it right after the election. EU citizens really have to reconsider their voting choices now.
Telegram is like CSAM and Nazi Central tbf. The place needs a purge, sucks that it's capitalist states doing it, they will go after leftists too...
Got carried away with democracy and attempts to feel like someone. So what kind of moron do you have to be to get EU citizenship? Thought he would run away from the democrats and liberals. Well, he's an idiot and that's it.
