И еще косвенные доказательства того, что угрозы идут из России и мы, действительно, идем по верному пути и ряд наших предположений по исполнителям и заказчикам верны: все аккаунты, с которых писались угрозы мне, Живову, Сапонькову и нашим родственникам, волонтерам фонда "Два майора", а также с которых пытались договариваться с самими товарищами Двумя майорам, были удалены. Аккаунт "Игорь" также удален, но он и удалил всю переписку, так что я его уже не нашел.
И еще косвенные доказательства того, что угрозы идут из России и мы, действительно, идем по верному пути и ряд наших предположений по исполнителям и заказчикам верны: все аккаунты, с которых писались угрозы мне, Живову, Сапонькову и нашим родственникам, волонтерам фонда "Два майора", а также с которых пытались договариваться с самими товарищами Двумя майорам, были удалены. Аккаунт "Игорь" также удален, но он и удалил всю переписку, так что я его уже не нашел.
Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals.
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