Друзья, у нас ответственная и на редкость приятная миссия: передать вам новогодние поздравления от наших авторов! Пусть эти теплые слова согреют вас накануне праздника, а пожелания обязательно сбудутся в новом 2025-м (любви накопилось так много, что все поздравления не уместились в одной галерее — завтра принесем еще!) 🎅
Друзья, у нас ответственная и на редкость приятная миссия: передать вам новогодние поздравления от наших авторов! Пусть эти теплые слова согреют вас накануне праздника, а пожелания обязательно сбудутся в новом 2025-м (любви накопилось так много, что все поздравления не уместились в одной галерее — завтра принесем еще!) 🎅
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. 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. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. 'Wild West'
from jp
