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For those not aware, ICQ is owned by Mail.Ru Group controlled by Alisher Usmanov, one of Putin's oligarch friends
by spxans 6y ago
For those not aware, ICQ is owned by Mail.Ru Group controlled by Alisher Usmanov, one of Putin's oligarch friends
- spxans 6y agoNo mention of any sort of chat encryption either. As with all the Mail.Ru Group's other services (VK, Odnoklassniki) it is widely understood that the russian secret services have essentially unrestricted access to everything happening on them, so be advised
- zzzcpan 6y agoPeople don't seem to understand what level of access FSB has there. Like literal spying boxes with APIs pulling linked phone numbers and identities to associate with messages all directly controlled by FSB.
- madoublet 6y agoYeah, that seems like an immediate non-starter.
- sergiotapia 6y agoDo you also avoid chinese companies like Riot Games, Epic Games, Tik Tok and others? What about chinese backed movies?
- duxup 6y agoThat person might ... But I could see not avoiding games, but very much wanting to avoid communications software.
- jbverschoor 6y agoFor communication, yes...
- theandrewbailey 6y agoTim Sweeney owns 51% of Epic Games. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1181944951686488066 https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/118194495168648806...
- maqp 6y agoEven rms agrees that games do not need to be open source. It's when the program has control over your actual life when freedoms, privacy and security start to matter.