The main reason I consider it suspicious is that they are so adamant about not needing end-to-end encryption.
replyEven assuming they are fully legitimate today, if this ever changes and somebody gets access to their infrastructure, they immediately get a treasure trove of historical messages.
Telegram hoards messages of over 1,000,000,000 users as of now. Anyone not realizing major nation states have long since pwned the servers to spy on those users is a fool. Even if if the zero days cost 100 BILLION dollars, that access costs like 1-2 hours of intelligence contractor's hourly wage per target. The bang for buck is insane. Telegram is one of the world's biggest intelligence operations, wittingly, or unwittingly.
reply> Anyhow, people don't write off Telegram because it's Russian, but for many legitimate reasons.
reply> There are indications that it could be much closer to the Russian government than they pretend
Can you give more details, please? I'm using telegram a lot and want to know if there is something...
Also Durov has visited Russia over 60 times
replyhttps://kyivindependent.com/kremlingram-investigation-durov/
despite endless claims he's in exile
Calling him an oligarch, it was implied
replyRussians are not the problem. Russian oligarchs building apps spying over billion people are. You trying to frame this as Russophobia is a Kremlin talking point https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/195236/pw_56_ang_russophobia_n...
replySo I'm just gonna assume you work for Internet Research Agency and tell you to maybe bugger off.
There are oligarchs in other countries like USA (Musk)
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