French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO

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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24227672/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-ceo

Pavel Durov could be indicted in the morning.

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The algorithm for the end to end encryption is open source as far as I know. Should be easy for security researchers to prove that something is manipulated...

Signal had long periods of blackouts when they did not publish server side code. Calling Signal open source is really a stretch.

I'm calling the E2E algirithm open source. That's the reason why WhatsApp is using it, too. As long as the message is correctly encrypted for E2E on the client side, it should not matter what the server is doing as far as I know.

The algorithm for the end to end encryption is open source as far as I know. Should be easy for state actors to read through it and break it

Ftfy