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Telegram messenger's ties to Russia's FSB revealed in new report (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by LWD@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Somewhat buried source that Newsweek is using: https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Click bait. The report is really grasping at straws. It's like saying any company that uses AWS servers is linked to the Israel government.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. Has secretly visited Israel multiple times despite claiming otherwise, with one of the trips followed by Israel unblocking the app.
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been known since late 2010s

The same way signal is affiliated with NSA... . nobody can prove but common sense analysis and how the product is structured clearly indicates that there if local feds wanted the data, they can get it.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Signal's security model is indeed robust - their E2E protocol is open source, independently audited, and uses perfect forward secrecy which telegram's secret chats don't implemnet properly.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

*meta data

[–] N3rdBrain@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

90% of the trump supporters I know use telegram for that reason lol