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Brit Morin: Deel espionage was coordinated via Telegram with 'The Watchman'
“Also, they had a telegram channel where they were discussing the payments, and.
Wait, who was?
Okay, it's Keith, it's the spy.
How much did they pay for the telegram, Brett?
I know, telegram, not signal.
It's the spy, it's the CEO, and then there's a third per…”
Morin: Russian military communicates almost exclusively on Telegram
“The Russian military apparently communicates almost exclusively on telegram.”
Sam Lessin: Telegram is not actually end-to-end encrypted
“Telegram tells this whole story about encryption and pro free speech, but it's actually not end to end encrypted.”
Morin: Nation states will compromise phones regardless of Telegram or Signal
“Nation states have enormous resources and spend enormous resources to break encryption, find back doors, like do all kinds of things to make sure that they can listen to your phone if they want to. And it doesn't matter whether you're on Telegram or Signal, na…”
Sam Lessin: Telegram's architecture cannot support its privacy promises
“I think the problem with telegram is that they wrote a check around a certain set of policies and they can't cash it because of how the platform is actually architected and works and what it's set up to do.”
Sam Lessin: Human founders cannot resist state pressure without cryptography
“I think it's just impossible in 20, 24 to believe that any individual human is strong enough to like fight these battles. Like if you're in an encrypted and you don't have the keys and it's Technologically impossible. Then we can have an abstract argument abou…”
Sam Lessin: WhatsApp and iMessage possess lobbying power Telegram lacks
“Everyone else who runs something like this, the WhatsApps of the world, iMessage, et cetera, they're all like Really fucking good businesses, and so they can afford the lobbyists and the games to play, and they can, they figure out compromise routes. Like, the…”