Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app?

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• RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who cares?

  This is propaganda. Intended to justify shutting it down.

  Why not talk about what’s actually important. Like genocide victims using it to tell their stories. Citizenry using it to organize when their oppressive govts shut down everything else.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ukraine uses it as a big propaganda chanel too. Do they also want to shut that down. Telegram is shit but all this recent talk seems very fishy to me.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Telegram might not be encrypted, but they’ve also spread their servers and content in multiple jurisdictions. And they don’t give in to law enforcement requests.

      This is why Durov is being charged.

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  • True@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you read the article?

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    • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excuse me, this is the comments on Lemmy, no one read the article, they barely read the title before rushing here to spout off their captivating, brilliant opinion

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not talk about what’s actually important.

    Alright, let’s talk about the fact that freedom fighter Pavel Durov closed channels and bots of the Russian and Iranian opposition. You can’t do that and justify it by local laws of various dictatorships, and then allow child porn and other criminal activities while ignoring laws of democracies. He created himself an image of a good guy, but it’s all lie.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’d be interesting to know how come an actual military is using Telegram for communication. Bizarre shit.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Users of Anom can learn if they’re under investigation by typing in their username and smartphone details into a form on the site.

      😂 Nice try

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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