Telegram founder Pavel Durov doubted the security of competing messenger Signal. The businessman stated that his application is the only widely known messenger that preserves user privacy.
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In his article, Durov refers to an investigation by City Journal. The article claims that Signal received a $3 million grant from the government’s Open Technology Fund (OTF) to create encryption.
However, the publication’s sources said that OTF is associated with US intelligence and that the project “was actually an initiative associated with the State Department” to use open source Internet projects for US foreign policy purposes. .
Durov added that today other American corporate messengers, such as WhatsApp, Google Messages and even Skype, also use encryption similar to that implemented in Signal.
“It seems that IT giants in the US are not allowed to create their own encryption protocols that are independent of government interference,” the Telegram director wrote.
He noted that there are people in his circle against whom information from personal Signal messages was used in court or in the American media.
Durov called the words of Signal representatives about open source “a trick”, since the messenger, “unlike Telegram”, does not allow developers to verify that their code on GitHub is the same code that is used in the Signal app running on iOS.
The businessman emphasized that only Telegram publishes its open source code, and the Signal and WhatsApp conversations about privacy are “another obvious circus trick.”
Photo: social networks of Pavel Durov.
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Akhmed Sadulayev
Source: RB
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