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Besides, look at Pavel Durovs flagkilled reply here. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
> The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Solid criticism with well laid-out arguments from you, no doubt.
> Besides, look at Pavel Durovs flagkilled reply here.
Since when do upvote / downvote count mean anything at all about somebody's opinion or statements? (I haven't read the comment though.)
Look, it's obvious you have a beef with Telegram / Durov. But you are not giving any arguments, only snark. That's breaking HN's guidelines last I checked.
Maybe do that. Not being snarky, you’re missing important context.
Still, he's an official public face and should know better. That I fully agree with.
I am no cryptography expert. I judge by all the times I've seen programmers imagine they could do professional cryptography by themselves. Literally every time they fail. Thus, in my eyes it is more likely that Telegram's coders fell victim to the same illusion.
But I am not denying that it's possible it's the [beginnings of a] backdoor. The whole sub-thread is (a) my opinion on what's more likely and (b) calling out people who act snarky, offer no facts and demonstrate general negative bias.
It's really, really fishy.
The fact that a cryptographer might scoff and laugh at the proposition doesn't mean that a normal programmer couldn't fall victim to that illusion?
In any case -- yes. Both things are likely and you made a strong point for the "malice" side.
Still, it makes me wonder why would Durov run from Russia if he was willing to backdoor Telegram? Why not remain in Russia and backdoor it while being there? Why the extra trouble? Or maybe he didn't want to backdoor it for Russia but for other nation(s)?
