Telegram
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Newest episode in our political themed series, this one focuses on the Telegram app in Russia, its owner and strange details surrounding them.
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| 0:43.9 | forward slash plan. Greetings, comrades. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, as, as usual by now, I suppose, this episode was originally intended to be about something completely different. |
| 1:06.7 | And we'll get back to that subject, because I have a script for it, and it's about how the Soviet security services oppressed and controlled religion in the USSR. |
| 1:17.7 | But today, today I kind of want to go back to the political episodes, |
| 1:22.7 | because something strange and huge has happened in Russia lately. |
| 1:28.3 | You see, there is an app, and yeah, I'll be talking about an app here. |
| 1:34.3 | There is an app called Telegram, which is the most popular messenger in Russia. |
| 1:40.3 | It's a phone app with kind of end-to-end ciphers, which means that even the creators of the app |
| 1:48.4 | cannot have any decryption keys, so everything's like totally secret and totally anonymous. |
| 1:54.8 | So your messages can't be read by the FSB. |
| 1:58.4 | For obvious reasons, this app is extremely popular in Russia, and recently, as you |
| 2:04.7 | might have heard, the FSB demanded from the app's creator Pavel Dutov the sort of decryption |
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