How do you mean? Telegram was developed in VKontakte offices in St. Petersburg Durovs have spent years doing a poor job of pretending to live in exile from Rus

How do you mean? Telegram was developed in VKontakte offices in St. Petersburg Durovs have spent years doing a poor job of pretending to live in exile from Russia whilst regularly visiting their offices there. Telegrams encryption implementation is deliberately broken. Telegrams DH implementation was delibrately backdoored https://habrahabr.ru/post/206900/ https://habrahabr.ru/post/206900/ Honestly, “doesn’t seem like it” is complete bullshit. Once I get off my phone I’ll add more sources to this comment, but everything I said is easy to confirm with google.