Telegram CEO arrested upon entering France

[KevinB]

Whatsapp is encrypted (they claim), but I did not know that about telegram.

If you think any of those aren’t easy to read by CSE, NSA etc…

Nothing commercially gets released out without it already been broken and readable.

The only aspect is where someone bothers to read it.

 

[JLM1991]

Canadian Forces Army Reserve would like to enter the chat...

Wouldn't that be an actual security risk? I really hope reservists aren't actually doing this...

 

[brihard]

If you think any of those aren’t easy to read by CSE, NSA etc…

Nothing commercially gets released out without it already been broken and readable.

The only aspect is where someone bothers to read it.

Presupposing that’s true, though, that will seldom be of any help to normal police in normal criminal investigations. Those programs are still of a lot of use to criminals

 

[KevinB]

Presupposing that’s true, though, that will seldom be of any help to normal police in normal criminal investigations. Those programs are still of a lot of use to criminals

Very true.

 

[Blackadder1916]

He's not being kept in cells.

Telegram boss Pavel Durov banned from leaving France in criminal probe

He has been placed under formal investigation as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, French prosecutors say.

www.bbc.com

Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation in France as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.

Mr Durov, 39, has not been remanded in custody, but placed under judicial supervision, and has to pay a €5m (£4.2m; $5.6m) deposit.

The Russian-born billionaire, who is also a French national, also has to show up at a French police station twice a week and is not allowed to leave French territory.

Mr Durov was first detained upon arrival at Le Bourget airport north of Paris last Saturday under a warrant for offences related to the app.

In Wednesday's statement, the Paris prosecutors said Mr Durov was put under formal investigation over alleged offences that included:

• Complicity in the administration of an online platform to enable illicit transactions by an organised gang
• Refusal to communicate with authorities
• Complicity in organised criminal distribution of sexual images of children

In France, being put under formal investigation does not imply guilt or necessarily result in a trial - but it indicates that judges consider there is enough of a case to proceed with an investigation.

But President Macron had to answer some questions about Durov's citizenship.

France’s Macron defends giving citizenship to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

French leader denies inviting tech founder to France or having prior knowledge of his visit.

www.aljazeera.com

French President Emmanuel Macron has defended a decision to grant fast-track citizenship to indicted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.

Speaking at a news conference during a visit to Serbia, Macron said that granting nationality to high-profile figures who learn French and contribute to the nation is “good for our country”.

“It’s part of a strategy to allow women and men, whether artists, athletes or entrepreneurs, when they make the effort to learn the French language and that they develop wealth, innovation … to be given French nationality,” Macron said.

Macron said he had no prior knowledge that Durov was travelling to France before his arrest on Saturday, after the Le Canard Enchaine newspaper reported that Durov told police that he was planning to meet the French leader.

“I was absolutely not aware of Mr Durov’s arrival in France,’’ Macron said, describing Durov’s arrest as “an independent act of French justice”.

“It is false that I offered any kind of invitation to him.’’

“We are a country where there is a separation of powers,” Macron added.

French prosecutors have accused Durov of “complicity” in criminal activity on the messaging app Telegram, including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sex abuse material.