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psychoslavetoday at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

>You people are just racist towards Russians and need help.

That doesn’t exclude the statements about Telegram to be correct though. That is, if some hater against whatever group say 1+1=2 or water is wet, what’s the conclusion?

>You can do similar attacks on signal and whatsapp.

Well yes. Don’t trust devices, they are not humans, they don’t qualify. They can at most have some degree of reliance for some purpose. But assuming that all devices out there are powned by some external parties is a rather sound security baseline approach.

>Why is it that the Russian one bothers you so much?

One don’t need to bother more on any specific oligarchy really, they all use their fellow humans like disposable pawns.


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tryauuumtoday at 7:38 PM

> You people are just racist towards Russians and need help.

>> That doesn’t exclude the statements about Telegram to be correct though.

just attack the telegram from the technical standpoint, then no complains about "racist towards russians" will be given. Like, mentioning the lack of user-friendly E2EE is great already. Saying things like "Durov who supposedly lives in exile has visited Russia over 50 times" is meh. How can one intepret it in any other way is "Russia is evil and visiting Russia is thus evil"?

and regarding the cracking contests — one of the telegram bugs was actually uncovered this way, see https://habr.com/ru/articles/206900/

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