Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp
ceiron@europe.pub 2 months agoWell that’s because Telegram is likely the state messaging app they’re talking about! 😄
Comment on Russia's State Duma passes bill to create state messaging app as it considers blocking WhatsApp
ceiron@europe.pub 2 months agoWell that’s because Telegram is likely the state messaging app they’re talking about! 😄
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Touché
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I assume this is just a joke… Because with the relationship Telegram has with the Russian government this would be quite unlikely.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They do love the illusion of safety it produces. Recently it was confirmed TG’s infrastructure is managed by the same guys who do this for FSB. Google iStories for the investigation.
The new messenger would probably be Max, a newly announced app from the russian nephew of Meta, Mail.ru, now called VK after they bought this site from Durov. In last ten years they bought many popular sites, educational platforms, started businesses in many spheres. This helps that it’s managed by the son of a russian top beaurocrat, so I guess it’s on them to take another niche without any competition.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Link to the mentioned story:
occrp.org/…/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-m…
I would say the link is bit more tenuous than you would present it. A Russian guy works for telegram with one of his businesses. Other businesses he owns are suspected of working with FSB.
To be sure, Telegram is most likely not very trustworthy but I thought that the fact they developed their own crypto would be suspicious enough so that people wouldn’t use it for sensitive information. Still it has not be confirmed that Telegram’s infrastructure is run by FSB.