Protecting Sensitive Data: The Experience of Russia and the US

... 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 ...