{"id":180228,"date":"2017-06-18T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/18\/yeah-this-is-reassuring-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T00:57:00","slug":"yeah-this-is-reassuring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/18\/yeah-this-is-reassuring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, This is Reassuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The developer of a Russian secure messaging app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/06\/14\/telegram_boss_backdoor_offer_claim\/\">has revealed how elements of the U.S. state security apparatus attempted to threaten and bribe him into putting a back door in his application<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The founder of chat app Telegram has publicly claimed that feds pressured the company to weaken its encryption or install a backdoor. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During our team&#8217;s 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI,&#8221; Pavel Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/durov\/status\/873868773119451136\">said<\/a> on Twitter. &#8220;It would be naive to think you can run an independent\/secure cryptoapp based in the US,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/durov\/status\/873870658874355713\">added<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Durov&#8217;s comments follow earlier unsubstantiated claims that arch-rival Signal was compromised. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The encryption of Signal (=WhatsApp, FB) was funded by the US Government. I predict a backdoor will be found there within 5 years from now,&#8221; Durov <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/durov\/status\/872891017418113024\">claimed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Live in obedient fear, citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of a Russian secure messaging app has revealed how elements of the U.S. state security apparatus attempted to threaten and bribe him into putting a back door in his application: The founder of chat app Telegram has publicly claimed that feds pressured the company to weaken its encryption or install a backdoor. &#8220;During &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,526,366,382],"class_list":["post-180228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-privacy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}