Закрыв собой, забыв про боль, Мы бережём тебя, Россия! Мы спаяны из тысяч воль В сердец недюжинную силу, В святое мужество Побед Над бездной «зрелища и хлеба». Мы плавим твердь, врастая в свет, И на плечах выносим небо. Мы крепче всех отвесных скал, Нас не сломить, когда едины. Крылами Ангел начертал: «России быть несокрушимой!»
Закрыв собой, забыв про боль, Мы бережём тебя, Россия! Мы спаяны из тысяч воль В сердец недюжинную силу, В святое мужество Побед Над бездной «зрелища и хлеба». Мы плавим твердь, врастая в свет, И на плечах выносим небо. Мы крепче всех отвесных скал, Нас не сломить, когда едины. Крылами Ангел начертал: «России быть несокрушимой!»
Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
from vn
