{"id":67428,"date":"2024-04-20T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67428"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:47:59","slug":"telegram-founder-reveals-us-governments-alleged-covert-maneuvers-to-backdoor-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67428","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Founder Reveals US Government\u2019s Alleged Covert Maneuvers to Backdoor The App"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Telegram Founder Reveals US Government\u2019s Alleged Covert Maneuvers to Backdoor The App<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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US authorities allegedly sought backdoors into Telegram’s encryption<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Here\u2019s a headline that surfaced on the internet this week: \u201cUS government tried to spy on people\u2026\u201d (\u2026somebody, who happens to be the Telegram founder, \u201cclaims\u201d.)<\/p>\n

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What a shocker. Is this really newsworthy? Actually yes \u2013 because here, we\u2019re seeing the opposite of clickbait \u2013 a subdued, to put it generously, headline in legacy US media, in an attempt to report about some of the things Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said during his interview with Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

But behind this headline lies a pretty explosive, even if not surprising story \u2013 of how countries (in reality, more likely than one, but in this case, one is named) view the backbone of internet safety and integrity, namely \u2013 reliable, secure encryption.<\/p>\n

Long story short \u2013 they view it as the enemy.<\/p>\n

Durov, a Russian now in possession of multiple passports, based in Dubai, UAE, and often apparently butting heads with snooping efforts from governments (including Russian) revealed during the interview how the government in Washington one time tried to \u201cbreak into Telegram,\u201d as he put it.<\/p>\n

But really, doing this successfully, given the nature of the encrypted app, would have meant not just breaking \u201cinto\u201d \u2013 but, breaking Telegram.<\/p>\n

Durov spoke specifically about the spy agency activities when, according to him, they tried to recruit an engineer working for his company as obviously well-positioned to write encryption backdoor code (malware by any other name) the purpose of which would be to \u2013 well, break Telegram.<\/p>\n

The last time he was in the US, Durov told Carlson, he was accompanied by a Telegram employee, \u201can engineer (\u2026) and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers or agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

What might the US agencies\u2019 goals have been, Durov was asked.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telegram Founder Reveals US Government\u2019s Alleged Covert Maneuvers to Backdoor The App US authorities allegedly sought backdoors into Telegram’s encryption. Here\u2019s a headline that surfaced on the internet this week: \u201cUS government tried to spy on people\u2026\u201d (\u2026somebody, who happens to be the Telegram founder, \u201cclaims\u201d.) What a shocker. Is this really newsworthy? Actually yes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33879,379,5570,33878,34293,843],"class_list":["post-67428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-government","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-telegram","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67429,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67428\/revisions\/67429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}