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Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.

Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.

Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.

I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.

Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I hate how 50% of 'news' is literally like "1 equals 1" to me. It's fucking obvious.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, it was obvious to you. I'm a casual user, who tries to "do his best" and consider himself "somewhat informed" - obviously not by your standard. It was all news to me, and I find tremendous value in this article.

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you, that means a lot. For people working in information security it really feels sometimes that a). a lot of stuff is obvious, b). people just don't listen and don't care.

Your comment shows how incorrect this is. That really helps keep motivated.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

No, I can't stress enough how much I appreciate it. What I do right now is sending this article with TLDR to all my friends and family.

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