From Moxie, founder of Signal: “Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s an “encrypted app”. The reality is the opposite- TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd. Every msg, photo, video, doc sent/received for the past 10 yrs; all contacts, group memberships, etc are all available to anyone w/ access to that DB. Many TG employees have family in Russia. If Russia doesn’t want to bother w/ hacking, they can leverage family safety for access.”
I met Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, in Dubai. The current WIRED cover story argues that he and his team were still in St. Petersburg, Russia during the period they claimed to be refugees operating outside Russia. “Maybe Durov is an angel. I hope so! But angels have fallen before” — Edward Snowden
From: https://www.wired.com/story/how-telegram-became-anti-facebook/
Moxie: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1497001286444617746
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