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by cja 656 days ago
Telegram is the comms system for the Russian military.
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cja 654 days ago
https://www.politico.eu/article/telegram-ceo-arrest-pavel-du...

“They practically detained the head of communication of the Russian army,”

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littlestymaar 656 days ago
As hilarious as it sounds, it's at least partly true.
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theragra 656 days ago
I heard whatsapp is better in low signal conditions, so they use both
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littlestymaar 656 days ago
I've also seen Discord being used on video footage from the war so I'm not surprised they'd use Whatsapp as well.
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Aachen 656 days ago
We had a client who wanted us to do a security audit and communicate the results—unpatched vulnerabilities mind you—via Discord. They could not be dissuaded.
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cja 655 days ago
Please could whoever downvoted this explain why? There's plenty of evidence of this. Access to Telegram would be like cracking Enigma
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cja 655 days ago
BBC review of reaction of Russian newspapers https://x.com/BBCSteveR/status/1827956452373438648
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