Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact
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When Eva Galperin heard that Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging service Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend, she quickly got in touch with French privacy and legal experts.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Matrix CEOs somehow not arrested.

    Honestly, that feels like the beginning and end of this story.

    Secure communications that are actually secure exist in the EU, are funded by the EU, and used by various EU govermnents (Germany and France have both used Matrix).

    Tell me again how this is motivated by trying to get rid of encryption and not that this guy wouldn’t respond to warrants?

    Signal and Matrix respond to warrants. WhatsApp responds to warrants. VPNs respond to warrants. They do their best to reduce the amount of information they keep on their users so that the amount of information they have to hand over due to respond to a warrant is minimal (Well maybe not WhatsApp). Often sites have “warrant canaries” so people can know if they’ve been served with warrants.

    Tell me again, what’s different here? Because it seems to me like the EU is fine with privacy and encryption but they’re not fine with people ignoring warrants.

    EDIT: And just a reminder, Telegram isn’t real secure itself. Homegrown encryption that hasn’t been audited. No E2EE by default, not easy to set up for casual user, and to my knowledge, still no E2EE in group chats at all.