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"Telegram will disclose users' phones and IP addresses to authorities at their requests, the messenger app's founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, said on September 23."

Its over for Telegram. Durov caved really fast too.

"Telegram will disclose users' phones and IP addresses to authorities at their requests, the messenger app's founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, said on September 23."

Its over for Telegram. Durov caved really fast too. https://www.rferl.org/a/telegram-durov-dsclosure-phones-ip-addresses-authorties/33131064.html

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Ultimately this will be a net good I think. So many people trusted Telegram when it was never a secure option. Hopefully people will move to Signal and Session for more sensitive conversations, and web3 can move to XMTP finally 🤞

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This is certainly a sad news for people who rely on Telegram being secure. However, it's an opportunity for decentraluzed messangers. But the question remains, if other messangers are regulated, web3 messangers be spared?