Comment by tamimio
1 year ago
That’s Telegram's CEO saying how he and his employees were “persuaded and pressured” by US FBI agents to integrate open-source libraries into Telegram (1).. There are a lot of questions to ask, like if the open-source libraries are indeed compromised, among other things. I take it as this arrest was the final straw to pressure him to give up and hand over some “needed” data, as all the accusations I read are laughable. Instagram is full of human trafficking and minor exploitation, drug dealers, and worse. The same goes with other social media, and I don’t see Elon or Zuck getting arrested. I am confident that this arrest is to obtain specific information, and after that, he will be released, or spend 20 years if he doesn’t comply.
Or he's trained in the art of lying
"At St. Petersburg State University, Mr. Durov studied linguistics. In lieu of military service, he trained in propaganda, studying Sun Tzu, Genghis Khan and Napoleon, and he learned to make posters aimed at influencing foreign soldiers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrate...
You really think the FBI would casually go to Durov and start telling him which libraries to deploy in his software.
This "They're trying to influence me that means its working" 5D-chess is the most stupid way to assess security of anything.
There's nothing to backdoor because it's already backdoored:
Code does not lie about what it does. And Telegram clients' code doesn't lie it doesn't end-to-end encrypt data it outputs to Telegram's servers. That's the backdoor. It's there. Right in front of you. With a big flashing neon light says backdoor. It's so obvious I can't even write a paper about it because no journal or conference wouldn't accept me stating the fucking obvious.