Pavel Durov on Signal

Proving any links to states is next to impossible and if one could show show credible link to FSB/SVR they’d probably get offed by the agency quite fast. If Telegram is an op, it’s one of the biggest on the planet. But whether it is or not, doesn’t matter that much: In any case, it is one set of zero day exploits away from leaking 800M users’ data, and all major nation states have such exploits. If the spy teams of major nation states haven’t pwned Telegram severs by know, they deserve to get fired for not taking the lowest hanging fruit out there.