Ancestors

Written by Damien Miller on 2024-08-26 at 23:55

Everyone tech-adjacent celebrating Durov's arrest should read the charges against him as some are very problematic:

• Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration,

• Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,

• Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.

How many OSS tools violate these?

https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf

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Written by synlogic on 2024-08-27 at 00:52

@djm those specific charges may be BS. but I have no doubt Durov and Telegram are up to no good, and a danger to US/West and democracies in general. pattern of evidence visible consistent with Telegram being a Russian intelligence op and/or otherwise in bed with Putin

nobody with state-level threat models or lives on the line should run Telegram or use it for comms

eg. others have already gone deep on the suspicious qualities of its supposed encryption features

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Descendants

Written by Damien Miller on 2024-08-27 at 00:54

@synlogic I'm not talking about the other charges, Durov's relationship to the Russian state. I deliberately restricted my comments to something with IMO significantly wider implications for privacy-preserving technology.

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Written by synlogic on 2024-08-27 at 01:01

@djm got it. and makes sense

I guess I implied they might be using this as a cover excuse for their real goal: taking a swat at Putin and Russia and sending a signal that US/allies are "on" to Telegram

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