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One also has to wonder if the FBI consider the Telegram team to be essentially undeclared Russian agents, and hence fair game.
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Even wikipedia say it's founded by the governement ... As of October 2016, the project has received an unknown amount of donations from individual sponsors via the Freedom of the Press Foundation.[100] Open Whisper Systems has received grants from the Knight Foundation,[101] the Shuttleworth Foundation,[102] and the Open Technology Fund,[103] a U.S. government funded program that has also supported other privacy proj…
Funded by the government != The government has their hands all over it
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Bingo. The CEO of Telegram likes to spread conspiracy theories that are good for business. In a recent tweet he claimed that Signal is "funded by the US government", [1] citing a ridiculous hit piece on OWS and Moxie. [2] [1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/872891017418113024 [2] https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privac...
Even wikipedia say it's founded by the governement ... As of October 2016, the project has received an unknown amount of donations from individual sponsors via the Freedom of the Press Foundation.[100] Open Whisper Systems has received grants from the Knight Foundation,[101] the Shuttleworth Foundation,[102] and the Open Technology Fund,[103] a U.S. government funded program that has also supported other privacy proj…
ex: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/87369621172278476...
Hmmmm.... A Russian peddling undocumented crypto warez implies US crypto is untrustworthy despite the obvious open source code. Don't suppose this would be one of Putin's patriotic citizen artists spreading fake news do you? Edit: thanks to all the replies. I am smarter now.
> A Russian Russophobia seems to be the only acceptable form of Xenophobia these days. And a wildly popular one, at that.
>"It would be naive to think you can run an independent/secure cryptoapp based in the US." This seems to be a shot at WhatsApp and Signal, implying that they have loopholes that allow the FBI to snoop in. I'm not sure how true that is. This might be an attempt to deflect from the fact that Telegram uses a home-baked encryption protocol which might be insecure, while WhatsApp uses the OWS protocol.
I think Signal doesn't even have the metadata available, but I'm not sure about that.
[1] (Horrible Forbes Link)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/22/whats...
Read the replies from all the serious crypto security people on twitter and you will see the overwhelming consensus is that the FSB/Spetssviaz and FBI/NSA probably love Telegram for its roll-your-own-crypto and server mediated group chats. One also has to wonder if the FBI consider the Telegram team to be essentially undeclared Russian agents, and hence fair game.
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> Cool, our government really cares I wonder what they really care about? Liberty, individual rights, security, or more power? They're people too, so I'm sure they believe in the first three, but the last one is a more seductive and drives a lot more of the bad we see governments do; worse is that the drive for more power is frequently justified as "we need this power to protect our nation". > has the necessary power…
One... to see if you are for sale. If you can be bought, other state actors will try and may succeed, whether US actually bribes you or not. US needs to know if a successful App is up for taking bribe, including top developers individually, or not, because millions of Americans including persons in position of power might be using that app. Two... essentially, this is power of people applied. Lot of interest in keepi…
The rest, I can't argue with, though it doesn't really make me feel any better.
A journalist like Poitras is on all sorts of lists and incessantly harassed. There are secret courts, secret laws and secret processes at play. And beyond this the power of harassment, intimidation, blackmail and bribery. Individuals and even organizations cannot prevail against the array of capabilities.
Its nice to think of democratic theory and the rights but these only exist when not exercised as talking points. The moment you start exercising them you end up on all sorts of lists, marked for harassment and basically have a target on your back. Dissent is squashed even before it can formulate.