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Pavel Durov's Telegram Arrest and Signal Paranoia
from The Mushroom Pilot & Jailed Billionaires | The Tim Dillon Show #407 · #407
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Tim discusses the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France over criminal activity on the app, then riffs on how his own Signal chats are just memes and mundane talk instead of anything worth encrypting.
- Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, arrested in France over charges that his messaging app is used for criminal activity including child abuse images.
- Tim checks whether he's on Telegram, discovers he's on Signal instead after someone made him download it.
- Tim notes the NSA can read Signal anyway, then questions why people act paranoid on an encrypted app just to discuss restaurants.
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