Re: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France

D. Ray (Unicode punctuation removoed):

Telegram's point-to-point chats are not so open, and the
Russian military have no secure messenger of their own.

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I find it hard to believe. Basic messenger is not that
hard to create, and adding encryption functionality based
on, for example, PGP, is also not that hard.

It is not a case of tried-and-failed.  It is a case of
corruption and buereaucracy run amok, to the the degree of
state treason.  The Russian army lacks such basic things as
cable and field telephones, camouflage networks, and even
boxes for MG belts.  Volunteers develop, produce, and supply
all those, in direly insufficient quantities however...

Military wouldn't need most of functionality of modern
messengers, such as animated stickers or stories.

Normal civil users wouldn't need them either, but who cares?
They used to say about the classic free market that demand
determined supply.  Now supply determines demand, because
the suppliers manipulate the consumers.

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