Posted on 04/17/2024 9:56:26 AM PDT by marshmallow
The former Fox News anchor and conservative media personality divulged that he had set up an official Telegram channel for his Tucker Carlson Network, encouraging the public to “keep an eye on the announcements there.” The channel has already attracted more than 150, 000 subscribers.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson, Russian-born IT entrepreneur and co-founder of the Telegram social network Pavel Durov focused on a variety of topics, including his visit to the United States. The 39-year-old revealed that he was closely watched and monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during his time in the country.
“We got too much attention from the FBI, [and] the security agencies, wherever we came to the US,” Durov said during the interview released on Wednesday.
According to the businessman, one of his top employees once told him that he had been approached by the US government. “There was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by [US] cybersecurity officers,” Durov claimed.
He argued that those officers were trying to persuade the engineer to use “certain open-source tools,” which he would then integrate into Telegram’s code that, in Durov’s opinion, “would serve as backdoors” for hacking the platform.
The entrepreneur stressed that he believes what the employee said was true, adding, “There is no reason for my engineer to make up [such] stories.”
When asked if infiltrating Telegram's systems would allow the US government to spy on its users, Durov stated that he did not dismiss the possibility, acknowledging that any government could potentially carry out such an action. “A backdoor is a backdoor, regardless of who uses it," he underscored.
The 39-year-old tech tycoon noted that he had “personally experienced similar pressure” in the US, where law enforcement officials approached him on many occasions.
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FIB agency needs to be shut down.
“FBI Wanted to Install Backdoor to Spy on Users, Telegram Founder Tells Tucker Carlson”
It would surprise me a bit if this is the real reason SOME HERE constantly attack Telegram.
Only the government is allowed to keep secrets, don’t cha know?
Good point. I’m sure we have glowies posting on here, pretending to be conservatives.
They’re about as good at it as those losers who wear khakis, matching polos and bandanas over their faces, marching under names like “Patriot Front.”
I am not familiar with the term “glowies”. Please inform me.
Various search engines can do a far better and more thorough job of than than I can. 😏
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an overlap between Telegram attackers and a certain propaganda/fundraising spamathon.
Piece O’ Cake!
“glowie (plural glowies) (Internet slang, derogatory, far-right) A government agent or informant infiltrating an online political space, with the supposed intention of surveilling violent extremists or provoking entrapment.”
Bkmk
I am a Telegram user, I had never heard of the guy who started it until this interview with Tucker Carlson, former Russian who very impressive and has some eye opening things to say about a number of Western Governments including the USA and they are not pretty.
You don’t need a “backdoor” when social media, banks etc allow you in without do process and warrants
Right Google, right Facebook, right BoA?
5.56mm
As bad as Tik Tok is this is the reason why feds wanted it banned, the fbi doesn’t have a back door to spy on its users since it’s a Chinese company.
Watch a dim wit Zeeper like Chad Mulligan deny Deep State would do such a thing and/or claim the story is Russian propaganda even though anyone that has been paying attention knows the FBI is pretty close to being the equivalent of the old KGB.
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