Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

Post by z_open » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

chucke1992 wrote: post #59

z_open wrote: post #25

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Why don't you post it yourself. And why should I care about what he says when telegram has some of the worst default encryption settings among commonly used messaging apps in the west?

Except Telegram is considered one of the most secured apps around. Obviously it cannot stop people from being stupid when they expose themselves. The very reason why France is not happy is that because they cannot get access to private chats and stuff. EU was (and is) pushing for the end of E2E encryption after all (it failed this time, but they will try again). Durov created Telegram because the russian government w…

Post by valianteffort » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

k1ndl1 wrote: post #49

alex00 wrote: post #32

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Telegram is used heavily in both Ukraine & Russia. But I doubt it has anything to do with it.

Post by EduardoBautista » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

chad1n wrote: post #53

vessenes wrote: post #19

Not clear right now if France thinks he was actively complicit with the four horsemen listed, or if just the act of running Telegram makes him complicit in their eyes, or something in the middle, e.g. they asked for help and Telegram turned them down. This will be an interesting case to watch -- I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort -- but generally my un…

EU has been complaining about Telegram's end-to-end encryption for a long time and they want to implement some regulations to basically add backdoors into all messaging apps. I don't really see how this case will go on since at least private chats are encrypted so Telegram (theoretically at least) can't see the contents.

Post by lovegrenoble » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

Post by T-A » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:35 PM UTC

chucke1992 wrote: post #23

vessenes wrote: post #19

Not clear right now if France thinks he was actively complicit with the four horsemen listed, or if just the act of running Telegram makes him complicit in their eyes, or something in the middle, e.g. they asked for help and Telegram turned them down. This will be an interesting case to watch -- I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort -- but generally my un…

> I don't believe there are any western nations that want non-locally-backdoored messaging of any sort But that's what exactly they want no? EU is literally implementing a regulation that will allow to "circumvent end-to-end encryption to address child sexual abuse material". I believe it failed to pass recently, but they will try again - and nothing stops countries to implement it independently. I think France is th…