Comment by maqp

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.