There are plenty of voices and profiles creating from the observer’s vantage point, grounding us in the reality of where we are. That perspective is essential for navigating through the 4D chess at the ground level.
But sometimes, I slip into the plot and forget—that’s not my mission.
There are plenty of voices and profiles creating from the observer’s vantage point, grounding us in the reality of where we are. That perspective is essential for navigating through the 4D chess at the ground level.
But sometimes, I slip into the plot and forget—that’s not my mission.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. 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.
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