looks like Russia plans to fully ban telegram again (reports of ipv6 not working, voice calls already banned) and FSB made a working fork to bypass the banshttps://t.me/s/bruhcollective>They've started buying ads in Telegram for a certain messenger called "Telega," which promises mountains of gold and stable operation of Telegram within the Russian Federation.>>But what's the catch? The catch is that this "Telega" (https://telega.me) is a VK project.>But how can you find this out? It's simple - take the APK and open it in a decompiler.>>We go into ru.dahl.messenger.Extra and see:>-> PROXY_ADDRESS = "dal.mvk.com", a proxy address, let's note it down.>-> MYTRACKER_SDK_KEY = "*", an SDK key for the MyTracker tracker, which belongs to the VK Group.>-> CALLS_BASE_URL = "https://calls.okcdn.ru/" - these are the working calls, which are actually calls made through the Odnoklassniki infrastructure (which also powers MAX and VK Calls, yep).>>And now let's take a look at dal.mvk.com:>-> The nameservers for mvk.com point to the little-known domain VKONTAKTE.RU.>-> In the decompilation of the official VK for Android client, you can find references to https://jira.mvk.com.>>(And all the advertising for this client in Telegram leads to the tracking domain trk.mail.ru)>>But who cares? Maybe VK just decided to make a fork of Telegram for fun, hiding behind a front company from Tatarstan?>>Well, this is where something interesting is discovered: the client has a "blacklist" of undesirable Telegram channels, bots, and users! When you click on them, a Telegram-style "placeholder" is displayed with its own text:>><string name="ContentIsUnavailable">Content is unavailable</string>><string name="ContentUnavailableInfo">This %1$s is unavailable due to \n violations of the platform's rules</string>>>What platform's rules? Telegram's? But there are no such lines in the official Telegram client :)... 2000 chars
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>>106928639I can see why. There are hundreds of extremists groups on there, for example slavyanskaya akciya which advocates for race war against muslims, calls to overthrow Putin government, supports Azov and calls Russian government PIDOR (Putin's internationalist deslavitizing operation something)
>>106928696There are also conspiracies floating around there daily that falsely claim that x and y person in the government of Russia are jews
>>106928639What are the chances the ban will work this time?
>>106928696An obvious pigger cope group. Many such cases
>>106928696Oh no. Those are some real dangerous words and thoughts in public domain and we can't have that, comrade.
>>106929319Trumpenstein is also cracking down on his political opponents so you better shut up
>>106929333And that is just as bad. Healthy governments don't need to fixate on censorship and thought policing.
>>106928639If that's true, who will use telegram?I thought Russians were the main users.
>>106928696>race war against muslims, calls to overthrow Putin government, supports Azov and calls Russian government PIDOR (Putin's internationalist deslavitizing operation something)all very reasonable, moderate positions to hold
>>106929354The internet killed free speech.
>>106928696they sound based
Pavel Durov's interview with Lex Fridman was eye-opening. That man doesn't back down to governments, with an assassination attempt on his life back in 2018. I haven't used Telegram much, but after that podcast I plan on learning its features more.
>>106930445Pavel is a narcissist egomaniac imagine taking everything he says at face value
>>106930445That nigga's part of the problem by requiring a phone number to use Telegram. Use XMPP instead.
>>106928696okay based? europe for europeans
