🇫🇷❌✉️ A source in the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to RIA Novosti that Durov is still with the judge and has not been released.

🔗 https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/259024

🇦🇷⛓🇳🇮🌹— A group of lawyers submitted a request to the Federal Court of Argentina to issue international arrest warrants against Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, Vice President and First Lady Rosario Murillo, and other authorities of the Sandinista regime

🔍 The request was filed as part of a criminal investigation opened in the Argentine Federal Court in October 2022 against leaders of the Nicaraguan dictatorship, based on allegations of crimes against humanity.

"The request is based on the severity of the accusations, which include murder, torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and persecution for political and religious reasons, among other crimes, all of which are considered crimes against humanity.

At this stage of the investigation, and after months of analyzing the large amount of evidence accumulated in the process, we agree with the Public Prosecutor's Office and believe that there is sufficient evidence to justify the request for an investigative statement from the accused. In addition, we request their arrests and the issuance of international arrest warrants against them."

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🇫🇷❌✉️ Telegram messages are not encrypted.

France is trying to arrest the CEO of a Russian team that has plaintext access to every message the French president has ever sent or received..

Telegram messages aren't e2e encrypted. It is also a "cloud messenger," meaning that all messages live on Telegram's servers rather than the user's device.

With one query, the Russian Telegram team can get every message the French president has ever sent or received to his contacts, every message those contacts have ever sent or received to their contacts, every message those contacts' contacts have ever sent or received, etc.

It's just plaintext, there are no limits to what they can do, like use an LLM to help go through all that material and pull out the dirt, map the relationships, figure out who's keeping secrets from who, etc.

For the French politicians and cabinet members, it is kind of too late to do anything. Even if they try to delete all their messages now, the Telegram team can just mark the messages as "deleted" so that they no longer display to the user -- but not actually delete the data they retain access to.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-emmanuel-macron-france-social-media/

📎 Moxie Marlinspike

🇫🇷❌✉️ — The Full charges against Pavel Durov:

➡️ Complicity in the administration of an online platform to enable an illicit transaction, as part of an organized gang (an offense punishable by a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment and a €500,000 fine)

➡️ Refusal to communicate, upon request by the authorized authorities, the information or documents necessary forthe performance and exploitation of interceptions authorized by law

➡️ Complicity in the offenses in particular of making available without legitimate reason a program or data designed to undermine automated data processing systems [hacking], of organized distribution of child pornography [CSAM], of organized drug trafficking, of organized fraud, of criminal association with a view to committing crimes or offenses

➡️ Organized laundering the proceeds of such crimes

➡️ Provision of cryptology services aimed at ensuring confidentiality functions without a proper declaration

➡️ Supply and importation of a means of cryptology not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions [=checksum] without prior declaration

https://news.1rj.ru/str/BellumActaNews/128103

🇸🇻📈❗️ — M6.0 earthquake hits 96 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador!

#BREAKING

🇧🇷❌❌❗️ — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Alexandew de Moraes, gives an ultimatum for Twitter/X to abide by its orders or Twitter/X will be banned in Brazilian territory within 24 hours!

🔗 STF (@STF_oficial)

🌐🇺🇾💥🇻🇪 — Uruguay's representative to the OAS, Washington Abdala, on the situation in Venezuela: "There are 30 million Venezuelans pleading for peace, respect, and democracy. Can anyone hear them? Or are they doomed to live in hell?"