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Read the replies from all the serious crypto security people on twitter and you will see the overwhelming consensus is that the FSB/Spetssviaz and FBI/NSA probably love Telegram for its roll-your-own-crypto and server mediated group chats.

One also has to wonder if the FBI consider the Telegram team to be essentially undeclared Russian agents, and hence fair game.

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Indeed despite what they say, we only have their word for it but no source code to check whether they accepted these requests from the snoopers in usa.

I thought they open sourced the code?

Yeah, it's open and the encryption is done in the client, so it should be available on Github.

[1] - https://telegram.org/apps

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