An initially Russian company, which moved to Dubai, which is most popular by all sorts of right wing Russian propagandists and used by the Russian military. Chances are pretty good that it is controlled by Russia at this point.
If you want a better alternative try Signal or XMPP.
I would be surprised if it’s not.
russia tried to take control over it for a while, until
On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to “help with extremism investigations”. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html
Which means they have access to all messages.
You speculate that. Don’t pass it on like you have proof. Or share the proof.
There’s also the part where they cooperate with Russian authorities but not western authorities (which is why Pavel Durov was arrested), or how their half hidden end2end encryption mode used to have a mechanism to make it almost impossible to detect a Person in the Middle Attack until they got called out.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably not a whale.
I’m not saying I don’t agree with the speculation. It’s just some things get passed around as facts, but it’s a conspiracy at most.
The facts are:
- russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
- eventually they “convinced” durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
- in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything
Yes, I don’t have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.
No
i think its a real and genuine concern honestly
Ahh, alright then; Never mind 😅
Agreed.
But it could become one. Aside from private chats where e2ee is manually enabled, it’s all on a server somewhere.
