Thank you!
Also, AMA I guess.
I know, right? That's why investigative journalism is such a thankless, frustrating job. You need to prove beyond any doubt things that are often pretty obviously true.
Roman Anin and the rest of the IStories team did an absolutely amazing job. Found court documents going years back. Dug up signed statements and contracts. They did something nobody in the infosec community seemed to have done: actually looked at the IP addresses used by Telegram and followed that lead to its logical conclusion. And then published all of the receipts!
And still people will say this is "unsubstantiated" or find other ways to wave this off.
And yet this does move the needle. There is now proof of things we kinda sorta knew was probably true for years. It doesn't sound like much perhaps, but it's really important.
Gratulujemy zostania modem! :-)
Bardzo srogie grzyby.
Ale jak wszystko w USA, większą i lepszą™.
Nie no, tak sobie żartuję.
Żeby było jasne, to się już odbyło w zeszły łikend.
For the internet messenger functionality that would be Signal.
For other things (channels, mostly), anything that does not pretend to be end-to-end encrypted when it is not. A website with an RSS feed would be one trivial choice for channels that are open to anyone. Public communication like that has no business going through "platforms".