Don’t overestimate FSB. They never had the means to make ICQ the national chat in the first place. Russia is not North Korea, it’s not a full-blown totalitarian state even today. There was no opportunity.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a thought. The fsb basically had unlimited free access to any ICQ conversation, but they let it die instead or pushing it as the national chat app. Why? Seems a wasted opportunity to have everyone on telegram where everything is supposedly encrypted if there could have been an alternative where everything was in clear text.
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 months ago
One possibility is that Russia can read the encryption. They push, or allow, people to use Telegram because it gives false confidence that messages cannot be read which encourages people to share information they otherwise wouldn’t.
That exact strategy has been employed by the Security and Intelligence services of other nations; including the United States.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I doubt that is what is going on here since it’s their military using this. That Anom story is terrifying. Entrapment techniques like that make me sick. For. Every “criminal” they caught think of how many innocent people were violated by this.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What was the entrapment? The FBI sold phones to suspected criminals and monitored the conversations, didn’t they?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nonsense. How do you market an encryption platform exclusively to criminals? That may have been their target but there would be a large number of innocents that downloaded this as a secure messaging system.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
😂 Nice try