- A company owned by a Russian network engineer named Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers.
- Vedeneev’s other companies have a history of collaborating with Russia’s defense sector, the FSB security service, and other highly sensitive agencies.
- Because of the way Telegram’s encryption protocols work, even users who use its “end-to-end” encryption features are vulnerable to being tracked by anyone who can monitor its network traffic.
Look, in today’s world the entire banking sector relies on private communications to operate using the Internet. Why can’t private citizens get the same?
End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.
fully audited FOSS E2EE ftw