В нашей недавней статье о коррупции, как инструменте западных ТНК по продвижению своих интересов в разных регионах мира, мы разбирали кейс компании Unaoil.
Тогда из утечки десятков тысяч внутренних документов фирмы стало известно как компания и ее субподрядчики подкупали иностранных чиновников, чтобы помочь крупным корпорациям получить выгодные контракты.
И, так уж вышло, что операции Unaoil в Азербайджане стали одними из ключевых во всей этой истории, и заслужили отдельной статьи о том, как, прежде всего, британские ТНК получили контроль над ресурсами страны и ее коррумпированными чиновниками.
В нашей недавней статье о коррупции, как инструменте западных ТНК по продвижению своих интересов в разных регионах мира, мы разбирали кейс компании Unaoil.
Тогда из утечки десятков тысяч внутренних документов фирмы стало известно как компания и ее субподрядчики подкупали иностранных чиновников, чтобы помочь крупным корпорациям получить выгодные контракты.
И, так уж вышло, что операции Unaoil в Азербайджане стали одними из ключевых во всей этой истории, и заслужили отдельной статьи о том, как, прежде всего, британские ТНК получили контроль над ресурсами страны и ее коррумпированными чиновниками.
Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. If you initiate a Secret Chat, however, then these communications are end-to-end encrypted and are tied to the device you are using. That means it’s less convenient to access them across multiple platforms, but you are at far less risk of snooping. Back in the day, Secret Chats received some praise from the EFF, but the fact that its standard system isn’t as secure earned it some criticism. If you’re looking for something that is considered more reliable by privacy advocates, then Signal is the EFF’s preferred platform, although that too is not without some caveats. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe.
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