Comment by refurb

I know this is getting off-topic, but all the discussion about encryption missing an important weakness in any crypto algorithm - the human factor.

I found it interesting that countries like Singapore haven’t introduced requirements for backdoors. They are notorious for passing laws for whatever they want as the current government has a super majority and court that tends to side with the government.

Add on top Telegram is used widely in illegal drug transactions in Singapore.

What’s the reason? They just attack the human factor.

They just get invites to Telegram groups, or they bust someone and force them to handover access to their Telegram account. Set up surveillance for the delivery and boom crypto drug ring is taken down. They’ve done it again and again.

One could imagine this same technique could be used for any Telegram group or conversation.