Telegram is a Russian app, not Chinese. Interesting history (Wikipedia):
The servers of Telegram are distributed worldwide with five data centers in different regions, while the operational center is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[11][12][13][14]
All of Telegram's official components are open source,[19] with the exception of the server which is closed-sourced and proprietary.[8]
Telegram has overtaken WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to become the most popular instant messaging application in Belarus, Moldova, Jordan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Russia, and Ukraine.[26][27][28][29][30]
Telegram was launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Previously, the pair founded the Russian social network VK, which they left in 2014, saying it had been taken over by government.[31] Pavel Durov sold his remaining stake in VK and left Russia after resisting government pressure.[32] Nikolai Durov created the MTProto protocol that is the basis for the messenger, while Pavel Durov provided financial support and infrastructure through his Digital Fortress fund.[33] Telegram Messenger states that its end goal is not to bring profit,[34][35] but it is not structured as a non-profit organization.[36]
Telegram is registered as a company in the British Virgin Islands[9] and as an LLC in Dubai.[37][38] It does not disclose where it rents offices or which legal entities it uses to rent them, citing the need to "shelter the team from unnecessary influence" and protect users from governmental data requests.[39] After Pavel Durov left Russia in 2014, he was said to be moving from country to country with a small group of computer programmers consisting of 15 core members.[32][40] While a former employee of VK claimed that Telegram had employees in Saint Petersburg,[41] Pavel Durov said that the Telegram team made Berlin, Germany its headquarters in 2014,[42] but failed to obtain German residence permits for everyone on the team and moved to other jurisdictions in early 2015.[41] Since 2017, the company has been based in Dubai.[43] It has a complex corporate structure of shell companies to be ahead of government subpoenas.[44]
Messages can also be sent with client-to-client encryption in so-called secret chats. These messages are encrypted with the service's MTProto protocol.[87] Unlike Telegram's cloud-based messages, messages sent within a secret chat can be accessed only on the device upon which the secret chat was initiated and the device upon which the secret chat was accepted.[33][82][88] Messages sent within secret chats can, in principle, be deleted at any time and can optionally self-destruct.[89]
Secret chats have to be initiated and accepted via an invitation, upon which the encryption keys for the session are exchanged. Users in a secret chat can verify that no man-in-the-middle attack has occurred by comparing pictures that visualize their public key fingerprints.[90]
According to Telegram, secret chats have supported perfect forward secrecy since December 2014. Encryption keys are periodically changed after a key has been used more than 100 times or has been in use for more than a week.[84] Old encryption keys are destroyed.[63][64][91]
He recommended it to everyone. And now I see china has opened a policing station in nyc. lol. The potato invited them in! https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6SqK0yE/republicans-demand-answers-from-/c/
Telegram is a Russian app, not Chinese. Interesting history (Wikipedia):
The servers of Telegram are distributed worldwide with five data centers in different regions, while the operational center is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[11][12][13][14]
All of Telegram's official components are open source,[19] with the exception of the server which is closed-sourced and proprietary.[8]
Telegram has overtaken WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to become the most popular instant messaging application in Belarus, Moldova, Jordan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Russia, and Ukraine.[26][27][28][29][30]
Telegram was launched in 2013 by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Previously, the pair founded the Russian social network VK, which they left in 2014, saying it had been taken over by government.[31] Pavel Durov sold his remaining stake in VK and left Russia after resisting government pressure.[32] Nikolai Durov created the MTProto protocol that is the basis for the messenger, while Pavel Durov provided financial support and infrastructure through his Digital Fortress fund.[33] Telegram Messenger states that its end goal is not to bring profit,[34][35] but it is not structured as a non-profit organization.[36]
Telegram is registered as a company in the British Virgin Islands[9] and as an LLC in Dubai.[37][38] It does not disclose where it rents offices or which legal entities it uses to rent them, citing the need to "shelter the team from unnecessary influence" and protect users from governmental data requests.[39] After Pavel Durov left Russia in 2014, he was said to be moving from country to country with a small group of computer programmers consisting of 15 core members.[32][40] While a former employee of VK claimed that Telegram had employees in Saint Petersburg,[41] Pavel Durov said that the Telegram team made Berlin, Germany its headquarters in 2014,[42] but failed to obtain German residence permits for everyone on the team and moved to other jurisdictions in early 2015.[41] Since 2017, the company has been based in Dubai.[43] It has a complex corporate structure of shell companies to be ahead of government subpoenas.[44]
Messages can also be sent with client-to-client encryption in so-called secret chats. These messages are encrypted with the service's MTProto protocol.[87] Unlike Telegram's cloud-based messages, messages sent within a secret chat can be accessed only on the device upon which the secret chat was initiated and the device upon which the secret chat was accepted.[33][82][88] Messages sent within secret chats can, in principle, be deleted at any time and can optionally self-destruct.[89]
Secret chats have to be initiated and accepted via an invitation, upon which the encryption keys for the session are exchanged. Users in a secret chat can verify that no man-in-the-middle attack has occurred by comparing pictures that visualize their public key fingerprints.[90]
According to Telegram, secret chats have supported perfect forward secrecy since December 2014. Encryption keys are periodically changed after a key has been used more than 100 times or has been in use for more than a week.[84] Old encryption keys are destroyed.[63][64][91]
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