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Telegram messenger's ties to Russia's FSB revealed in new report (www.newsweek.com)
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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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks 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 1 month ago

*meta data