alt Hacker News> 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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> How can one intepret it in any other way
As noise. The fact it's xenophobic or some other kind of noise is just implementation details at that level.
> How can one intepret it in any other way is "Russia is evil and visiting Russia is thus evil"?
Simple: Durov has no problem with constructing a narrative that has little to do with reality.