🇫🇷❌✉️ 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/

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🇫🇷❌✉️ — 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!

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🇧🇷❌❌❗️ — 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!

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🇩🇰 ❌ ✉️ — Denmark wants to ban encrypted Telegram, Signal chats

The country’s Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, said he would “very much like” to block encrypted messaging services amidst skyrocketing gang-related crime.

End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging services have become so good that authorities are scrambling to keep up. Authorities from Sweden and Denmark complain it has been getting harder and harder to catch up with criminals as many utilize encrypted messaging services to access new recruits, Denmark’s daily, bt.dk, reported.

According to Sweden’s Minister of Justice, members of criminal gangs hide under the protection of E2EE, weakening authorities’ ability to monitor the gangs.

Moreover, apps such as Telegram facilitate payments that allow criminals to better organize themselves.

Meanwhile, Denmark’s Minister of Justice Hummelgaard suggested increasing the pressure on E2EE providers even further by geoblocking popular apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp to prevent criminals from enjoying a digital safe haven.

Interestingly, investigative journalists at Denmark’s frihedsbrevet.dk discovered that at least 70 members of the Danish parliament use encrypted messaging services themselves. Ironically, Hummelgaard was among the users of E2EE platforms he proposed to ban.

🔗 https://cybernews.com/privacy/denmark-ban-telegram-signal-whatsapp/