While he maintained an office in Russia, for everyone to see, while denying that publicly.
tsk
Dude is literally living in exile, yet you claim allegiance by him being affiliated with Russia, when his only crime here was being born in there and thus having some ties.
Seems crazy to me. Like, cold-war propaganda crazy.
this idea that Telegram is somehow nebulously “the enemy” and signal is “the virtuous” is so patently and clearly a propaganda campaign and we fall right into it.
On the other hand, while you are totally right about Telegram being quite a bit “trust us”; but they have better UX and are not at all hostile to third party clients and alternative implementations of their “secure” messaging protocol.
Which is also the subject of a lot of controversy of course, because (*puts on tinfoil hat*) it was originally handrolled and not US cryptographer approved.
(always get downvoted when I point out that Signal is doing weird stuff which only serves really to solidify my stance)