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Telegram messenger's ties to Russia's FSB revealed in new report (www.newsweek.com)
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Somewhat buried source that Newsweek is using: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Click bait. The report is really grasping at straws. It's like saying any company that uses AWS servers is linked to the Israel government.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
  1. Has secretly visited Israel multiple times despite claiming otherwise, with one of the trips followed by Israel unblocking the app.
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This has been known since late 2010s

The same way signal is affiliated with NSA... . nobody can prove but common sense analysis and how the product is structured clearly indicates that there if local feds wanted the data, they can get it.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

*meta data

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Signal's security model is indeed robust - their E2E protocol is open source, independently audited, and uses perfect forward secrecy which telegram's secret chats don't implemnet properly.

[-] N3rdBrain 2 points 1 month ago

90% of the trump supporters I know use telegram for that reason lol

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