Durov has been on exile for years because he refused to cooperate in the past and he made a statement about this. You can read his statement on his telegram account. https://t.me/durov
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#62This week, Telegram start censoring RT and Sputnik channel in France. I'm a lot disappointed, as it was the "free speech" platform. Not anymore...
Both still up if you live in a place that respects free speech. Not telegrams fault that they are forced to respect certain local law.
Also a bird told me that you need to write blocked channel names backwards if want to see what your gov does not want you to see.
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#63Text is in Russian, but nowadays it shouldn't be a problem. Just in case, Google Translate: Oleg Matveychev, deputy chairman of the committee on information policy, information technology and communications, told Podyom that as long as the messenger is politically neutral, they will not touch it, and there is no need to become biased by Telegram. “Durov found a compromise with the FSB. Not an agreement, not that he u…
Are the controlling only traffic from inside Russia or worldwide?
According to Durov Telegram does not have servers in Russia.
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#65We have deep respect for languages, but HN is an English-language site, so posts here need to be in English.
That may require waiting until a good English-language article appears, but the more significant the topic is, the more (and sooner) this is likely to happen.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Source please?
I think OP may be sloppily confusing Signal and Matrix here. The link for the case for a link between Matrix and Israel is there : https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html "Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel. On the Internet we find many pieces of information connecting Amdocs with Israel’s Intelligence [02][03][04]. We do not know…
Talking of sloppiness, that hackea.org article is a huge steaming pile of FUD about Matrix.
For what it’s worth, the team who came up with Matrix was originally based in two separate startups: one in the UK doing VoIP, one in France doing mobile dev. Both got acquired by Amdocs in 2010, but we ended up forming an independent “incubated startup” first to build telco apps, and then we came up with the idea of Matrix in ~2013. We then built out Matrix until 2017 when Amdocs killed our funding, having run out of patience for what amounted to generous FOSS philanthropy.
We then set up New Vector (now Element) as an entirely independent UK/FR startup, and have received zero funding from Amdocs since. To be crystal clear: Amdocs has zero privileged influence or control over Matrix (or Element, for that matter), and has zero access to the Matrix servers we operate as Element. And besides - the whole point of Matrix is that you can and should run your own servers so you can pick who to trust, even if you don’t trust the project itself.
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except ofc true p2p (the real kind of server less ) solutions, like 1. https://manyver.se 2. https://scuttlebutt.nz 3. https://cabal.chat
Manyverse is really cool. Just downloaded the app. Any suggestions on SSBs to join?
the entire point is you want to start by gather your existing friends and family in their respective groups, and create your own communities, and gradually let them invite other people who they know and can trust
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How did he go away without sharing encryption keys? Other networks platforms were forced to do this or close. Telegram left untouched...
Because he's been in exile since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrate...
This doesn't explain why Telegram isn't simply blocked in there
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I think OP may be sloppily confusing Signal and Matrix here. The link for the case for a link between Matrix and Israel is there : https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html "Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel. On the Internet we find many pieces of information connecting Amdocs with Israel’s Intelligence [02][03][04]. We do not know…
Talking of sloppiness, that hackea.org article is a huge steaming pile of FUD about Matrix. For what it’s worth, the team who came up with Matrix was originally based in two separate startups: one in the UK doing VoIP, one in France doing mobile dev. Both got acquired by Amdocs in 2010, but we ended up forming an independent “incubated startup” first to build telco apps, and then we came up with the idea of Matrix in…
Thanks for taking the time to asess this. Nice to have some first hand information on this !
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Are you real? There is no need to transmit a mobile phone number to a remote service in order for an iOS or Android application to get access to locally stored contacts. You do not need to receive a "verification SMS" to allow the application to access your contacts.
Your evidence is that the signal app client knows your phone number and can see your contacts list and your groups and your chat messages, and if it is malicious, it could just send all that to the server which could just store it in plaintext and turn it over to anyone who asks. But people have reverse engineered the app and it doesn't do that.
Pardon, but you're completely lost. The service knows your mobile phone number because the app requires you to provide it in order to activate your Signal account. After you've provided your mobile number the Signal service sends you an SMS with a verification code, and the app asks you to enter that code. Your account is unusable until you comply with this procedure. Since the service is passing messages between users, those who run the service also know which people communicate with eachother - because a valid mobile number is tied to each and every Signal user account.
I have no idea what you're rambling about regarding people having "reversee engineered the application". There's no reverse engineering required, as it's entirely open source.