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The Russian Government went all crazy on Telegram Messenger back in April, blocking almost 2M IP addresses associates with its application. Now the Hacker News tells us that Russia's Communications Regulator, Roskomnadzor, "has threatened Apple to face the consequences if the company does not...

Yesterday we talked about how Russia was blocking 1.7M IP addresses in order to block Telegram operations since the company would not turn over encryptions keys so the Russian government could spy on encrypted messaging through the Telegram application. Given that most of Telegrams IPs had been...

If you recall, the Russian government had recently demanded encryption keys be shared with it for services that were encrypting content. Telegram is one such encrypted service, and it decided to give the finger to the Russian government, instead of handing over the encryption keys so that its...

Two years ago we covered a story on how Russia was requiring ISPs to give backdoor access to apps. The encrypted messaging app Telegram, has lost a bid before Russia's Supreme Court to block security services getting access to users' data according to a Bloomberg report. Last year Telegram was...

Well, it looks like the CIA might have been slacking on this one, as they were apparently unaware of any method to break popular encrypted messaging clients remotely, instead having to take the circuitous route of first compromising the handset itself in order to listen in on communications...