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Rather convenient that this news comes out at the same time that Obama says he won't ask for keys to encrypted data.

zamalek 11y ago
A: Telegram has no intentional back doors. Any malice on the part of Obama has absolutely no relevance here whatsoever. If you want to disprove me feel free to audit the source[1]. Nobody would have ever been able to ask for keys in the first place, hence, the reason it was purportedly chosen by IS. B: That's pure conjecture and is a conspiracy theory. [1]: https://telegram.org/source https://telegram.org/source
- krmmalik 11y ago
  This isnt about Telegram. It's about BBCs decision to report on IS and what theyre doing. Youre clearly not familiar with IS history. IS was armed and supported by the US (do your research) and the BBC is well known as a US mouth piece. Looking at this as a purely tech debate, one of conjecture or a conspiracy theory is incredibly naive.
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  - zamalek 11y ago
    Here are the HN guidelines [1]. > This isnt about Telegram. Yes it is: the article is about Telegram and you yourself bought up cryptography keys. You implied that Telegram had some unsubstantiated correlation to the Obama administration (regardless of what previous administrations have done). You're veering wildly off-topic into a typical flamewar topic with no evidence, as well as asserting without justification that I am clueless about IS. > [1]: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. That is to say, it's probably best to be done here. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mahouse 11y ago
  Good luck auditing this: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/libs/armeabi-v7a https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/...
  - carlos22 11y ago
    There is a FOSS Version: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS But yeah Telegram isn't as free as it should be (Server etc.).

A: Telegram has no intentional back doors. Any malice on the part of Obama has absolutely no relevance here whatsoever. If you want to disprove me feel free to audit the source[1]. Nobody would have ever been able to ask for keys in the first place, hence, the reason it was purportedly chosen by IS. B: That's pure conjecture and is a conspiracy theory. [1]: https://telegram.org/source https://telegram.org/source

krmmalik 11y ago
This isnt about Telegram. It's about BBCs decision to report on IS and what theyre doing. Youre clearly not familiar with IS history. IS was armed and supported by the US (do your research) and the BBC is well known as a US mouth piece. Looking at this as a purely tech debate, one of conjecture or a conspiracy theory is incredibly naive.
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- zamalek 11y ago
  Here are the HN guidelines [1]. > This isnt about Telegram. Yes it is: the article is about Telegram and you yourself bought up cryptography keys. You implied that Telegram had some unsubstantiated correlation to the Obama administration (regardless of what previous administrations have done). You're veering wildly off-topic into a typical flamewar topic with no evidence, as well as asserting without justification that I am clueless about IS. > [1]: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. That is to say, it's probably best to be done here. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
mahouse 11y ago
Good luck auditing this: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/libs/armeabi-v7a https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/...
- carlos22 11y ago
  There is a FOSS Version: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS But yeah Telegram isn't as free as it should be (Server etc.).