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Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot (rys.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.

Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.

Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.

I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.

Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you conflate politeness and trustworthiness? Seems like a weird connection to make.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why do you conflate politeness and trustworthiness? Seems like a weird connection to make.

Is it really that weird? Imagine someone going to a store and the owner starts swearing at them because they asked a question. Would said visitor be more or less likely to trust the owner? I agree that being impolite doesn't necessarily equate to being ignorant in one's subject, but I wouldn't be surprised that on average the most knowledgeable and wise tend to be more polite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Because the inverse of that is how people get conned. Someone blowing absolute smoke with a confident tone and a sweet word. Tone is about the worst indicator of trustworthiness