US intelligence agencies tried to convince Telegram employees to build encryption backdoors into its app, says founder Pavel Durov. On Twitter, he claimed US agencies made two separate attempts to bribe some of the company's developers when they were in the US last year.
The FBI also pressured Durov himself, says the founder.
@yashalevine During our team's 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI.
@yashalevine And that was just 1 week. It would be naive to think you can run an independent/secure cryptoapp based in the US.
No backdoor needed. Enough bugs to go around. But there is a lot of backroom chatter between crypto app makers and their USG backers. twitter.com/durov/status/8…
@yashalevine During our team's 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI.
He is a somewhat problematic source of information, however. He's also claimed the popular secure messaging app Signal is likely to end up with a backdoor and he says it's "naive to think" an encrypted messaging app could be operated in the US.
There's no support for those claims.
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