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by vnw 2721 days ago
They also have all developers share one single anonymous github account "john-preston". I can't understand the reason.
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Perhaps it has something to do with:

" The founder of chat app Telegram has publicly claimed that feds pressured the company to weaken its encryption or install a backdoor.

He said, 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. "

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/14/telegram_boss_backd...