... Philip Ingram: One of the organisations I am on the board of specialises in tracking and penetrating criminal and terrorist organisations. It is a new company, but to prove our capability, we penetrated 140 invitation-only groups associated with ISIS on Telegram. We had also infiltrated their previous activities on the Dark Web and on Twitter. This has given me a unique insight into the extremists’ global reach and the way they radicalise individuals online. In your experience, what social networks,...
... with representatives of the IT sector. This in turn compels the representatives of mail services, messaging apps, and smartphone manufacturers to contact the authorities and disclose user information. However, excesses do occur, and the founder of the
Telegram
messaging app Pavel Durov refused to provide the FSB with their encryption keys.
Telegram
was
repeatedly accused
of being the messaging application of terrorists, and in the context of the messaging service’s being blocked, the discussion ...
... effect that it had on public opinion in the United States.
Interestingly, around the same time that this was happening in the United States, a similar story was unfolding in Russia in connection with the Russian social network and messenger service Telegram. A distinguishing feature of Telegram is that is uses a unique algorithm that is practically impervious to decryption by the intelligence services and thus prevents them from accessing secret communications. This is clearly an advantage of the ...
