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I can't find the article now but roughly telegram isn't actually end to end encrypted by default and they were storing a lot of illegal stuff on their own servers. They were told not to, but continued, hence arrest.
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“Telegram does not use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) – a tool that ensures that only the sender and intended recipient(s) can see the message – on all its chats by default,” explained Natalia Krapiva, senior tech-legal counsel at international digital rights organisation Access Now.
I only found that out today and was pretty shocked.
hugo7
http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/28/telegrams-pavel-durov-transferred-to-french-court-to-face-possible-charges
Another thing I have mixed thoughts on.