Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms.

On Tuesday, the government said it was restricting access to Telegram for the “protection of Russian citizens,” accusing the app of refusing to block content authorities consider “criminal and terrorist.”

Russia’s telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement that it would continue to restrict the operation of the Telegram messenger “until violations of Russian law are eliminated.”

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Bruh people sell drugs on Snapchat. That doesn’t mean Snapchat’s “security” (they have none) is “good.”

      Very stupid people sure, but they’re there, and the ones doing the same on Telegram are just as dumb. If you want to find the real ones you’ll need to learn about Tails, Dread, and XMR.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
        6·
        1 day ago

        that looks like the control panel(?) has full access to the target device already. usually when talking about security of communication softwares we don’t consider this kind of attacks…

        • xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          3 hours ago

          That is true, but also this entire “control panel” is ai generated. Lots of smudgy text, misspelled words, bad number formatting, etc.

        • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          yeah, if they get full access to your device no amount of end to end encryption will avoid that

          no matter how secure the chat app protocol is, as long as one of the users in the chat is compromised they can access to those chats

        • Solrac@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Only the federated networks, no one controlling entity nor country, best part is open source, because we the people, get to say what goes, and what doesn’t.

    • Lytia @lemmy.todayEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      There is a reason every illegal operation runs on Telegram, not Signal. The security is good.

      Or it’s because the platform is nearly unmoderated and has benefited greatly from the network effect.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        18 hours ago

        It’s actually because that claim is flat out false. People sell drugs on Snapchat for starters, back in the day it started on IRC (afaik) if you knew the right spots, Silk Road is closed (and all those using the name since are scams) and I think WHM (last I knew) exit scammed, but someone took up the job (idk who, check Dread.)

        There’s a reason some (not nearly all, not even most) illegal operations run on Telegram and not Signal, and it has absolutely dick to do with security.

        There, fixed that for them lol.