Telegram Goes on the Offensive Against Russian Govt

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FrgMstr

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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 blocked, the only way to continue to use the application in Russia reliably would be through VPN. Here we are day later and it looks as if Telegram founder, Pavel Durov is not sitting around on his hands waiting and watching the for his communication app to become irrelevant. Pavel is now saying that he will donate millions of dollars in order to fund usable VPN infrastructure to keep Telegram alive. You have to appreciate that sort of action! He is also suggesting that a full 15M IPs have not been blocked.

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"I am happy to donate millions of dollars this year to this cause, and hope that other people will follow. I called this Digital Resistance – a decentralized movement standing for digital freedoms and progress globally."
 
Handing over encryption keys to anyone means you may as well just un-encrypt everything moving forward, because there is no way to be sure that the keys don't travel any further. All it takes is one person having access to the system the Russian government stores these keys on, and they're out in the wild forever now.
 
Some day they'll just make it so encryption becomes illegal, except for things like banking, etc.
 
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