Russian Court Bans Telegram App for refusing to hand over encryption keys.
Commendable they refuse to hand over keys but now no more Telegram in Russia... The issue with #centralization made clear again. Better #federate with #matrix #XMPP
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/europe/russia-telegram-encryption.html …pic.twitter.com/23r0kik4w4 #nextcloud
@ahmd_amsyr @nextcloud @UberGeek Telegram chats are not by default end-to-end decrypted, that's why
@charlag @nextcloud @ahmd_amsyr that's a problem.
@nextcloud What is even more concerning is that they *could* hand over keys that would decrypt communications...
@nextcloud it’s interesting that apparently there is no central private key (they are distributed) and it’s impossible for Telegram to comply.
@nextcloud Maybe they'll go the LavaBit route: dissappear for a while and then come back stronger then ever whilst pushing for new standards.
who would have thunk a government fond of centralized power would behave this way?
@nextcloud Its not like Telegram have a good encryption in the first place. So why the Russians want the encryption key?