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From: TimF4/18/2018 1:27:48 PM
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Russia Smashes Telegram If you recall, the Russian government had recently demanded encryption keys be shared with it for services that were encrypting content. Telegram is one such encrypted service, and it decided to give the finger to the Russian government, instead of handing over the encryption keys so that its users could be surveilled. Russia has responded by blacklisting nearly 1.7M IP addresses on Amazon and Google services that Telegram uses....or used to.
Russian authorities are attempting to crush messaging platform Telegram. After refusing to hand over its encryption keys so that users can be spied on, last week a court ordered the service to be blocked. Yesterday broad action was taken, with ISPs blocking more than 1.8 million Telegram-utilized IP addresses belonging to Google and Amazon.

At the end of March, authorities suggested that around 15 million IP addresses (13.5 million belonging to Amazon) could be blocked to target chat software Zello. While those measures were averted, a further 500 domains belonging to Google were caught in the dragnet.
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Yesterday we talked about how Russia was blocking 1.7M IP addresses in order to block Telegram operations since the company would not turn over encryptions keys so the Russian government could spy on encrypted messaging through the Telegram application. Given that most of Telegrams IPs had been blocked, the only way to continue to use the application in Russia reliably would be through VPN. Here we are day later and it looks as if Telegram founder, Pavel Durov is not sitting around on his hands waiting and watching the for his communication app to become irrelevant. Pavel is now saying that he will donate millions of dollars in order to fund usable VPN infrastructure to keep Telegram alive. You have to appreciate that sort of action! He is also suggesting that a full 15M IPs have not been blocked.
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"I am happy to donate millions of dollars this year to this cause, and hope that other people will follow. I called this Digital Resistance – a decentralized movement standing for digital freedoms and progress globally."

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