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Read the replies from all the serious crypto security people on twitter and you will see the overwhelming consensus is that the FSB/Spetssviaz and FBI/NSA proba

Read the replies from all the serious crypto security people on twitter and you will see the overwhelming consensus is that the FSB/Spetssviaz and FBI/NSA probably love Telegram for its roll-your-own-crypto and server mediated group chats. One also has to wonder if the FBI consider the Telegram team to be essentially undeclared Russian agents, and hence fair game.

nf05papsjfVbc 9y ago
Indeed despite what they say, we only have their word for it but no source code to check whether they accepted these requests from the snoopers in usa.
- rthomas6 9y ago
  I thought they open sourced the code?
  - slipmagic 9y ago
    Yeah, it's open and the encryption is done in the client, so it should be available on Github. [1] - https://telegram.org/apps https://telegram.org/apps
Turbots 9y ago
That's why the UK is trying to ban Telegram because they can't seem to decrypt the secure chats of British and other terrorists... I know they wouldn't tell us if they would have cracked telegram, but there's no reason to believe they have... They would find all of the homegrown terrorists so fast if they could (there are many sources confirming most of ISIS chats are over secure telegram chats)