Beware of the Fake Telegram Company Registered in the UK
When Telegram announced they would host an initial coin offering, the media attention was overwhelming. Now that most of this funding has concluded successfully, it has become apparent that the company raised a lot of money in the process. At the same time, there is a fake Telegram company … Read …
Russia Orders ISPs to Block Telegram, Founder Gets Crafty
On Friday a court ruled that Telegram should be blocked inside Russia due to its failure to turn over its encryption keys. In 2016, Russia passed “anti-terror laws” that require messaging services give authorities the ability to decrypt communications. Telegram founder Pavel Durov has defied the order and … Read More
Moscow court blocks use of Telegram messaging app
A Russian District Court has granted a request by the country's media authority, Roskomnxdzor, to start blocking Telegram, the messaging application or app, because of its refusal to hand over encryption keys. The decision was made on Friday after a 40-minute hearing in Moscow, which was not … Read More
Telegram hit with block in Russia over encryption
In a longer post on his Telegram channel today, Durov adds: “The power that local governments have over IT corporations is based on money. At any given moment, a government can crash their stocks by threatening to block revenue streams from its markets and thus force these companies to do … …
‘Privacy Is Not for Sale’ — Telegram CEO Blasts Russia’s Decision to Ban Messaging App
A Moscow court ruled to block access to Telegram in Russia after it refused to give security services access to users' secret messages in an ongoing legal battle. The court satisfied state media regulator Roskomnadzor's request to “immediately” ban Telegram after the ruling despite the company's legal … Read More
Russia has banned the wildly popular homegrown Telegram messaging app
Russia took another step in its campaign against online privacy today, by banning the highly popular encrypted messaging app Telegram, which is owned by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov. A Moscow court ruled that the app, which says it has 200 million users worldwide, should be shut down after … Read More
Russia bans Telegram online messaging service
A court in Moscow issued a ban on Telegram on Friday after the online messaging service refused to hand Russian secret services access to its users' encrypted data. Moscow's Tagansky region court approved a request from Roskomnadzor, the Russian media regulator, for Telegram to be blocked in … Read More
Telegram: Russia orders app blocked; pirated content routinely stored on app’s servers, claims report
A few weeks ago, a court ordered messaging app Telegram to hand over encryption keys for messages to Russia's KGB successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB). Telegram refused, and a court has now ordered that access to the service be blocked. This was expected, but there's one 'you couldn't … Read …
Telegram will use built-in systems to bypass ban in Russia: CEO
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The chief executive of the Telegram messenger service, Pavel Durov, said on Friday the application will use built-in systems to circumnavigate a ban in Russia imposed by a court earlier on Friday. He said on his page in the VK social network that he still cannot guarantee …
Breaking: Telegram Banned in Russia after Swift Court Ruling
Russia continued its crusade against Telegram today. A court in Moscow has officially announced the ban of the application across the country earlier today. The move comes after weeks of controversy amid the denial of the company to provide a cryptographic key to decipher messages between users. Read More