[vvpan]

Somebody already posted it but I wanted to mention it again, investigations that Telegram has not been able to dispute have revealed that Telegram's infrastructure is managed by a person who is also managing infra for FSB. And this is happening unbeknownst to Telegram employees.

https://istories.media/en/stories/2025/06/10/telegram-fsb/

[Grombobulous]

This just makes me realize that three letter agencies of basically every country probably have an extremely easy time getting access to things by simply getting people hired as regular employees through mundane and routine means.

[ameliaquining]

One hopes that the usual defenses against insider risk provide some help here.

[Grombobulous]

Essentially what I am saying is that most companies do a terrible job of that sort of thing and largely can’t fathom what an actual attack looks like.