Forwarded from Pepe Escobar
What a puny little coward. OF COURSE it is political. The order came from the Deep State. The Petit Roi's police is just the enforcer. Petit Roi is a lowly vassal following the overarching NATO/European Commission agenda; they badly want the encryption keys.
🇫🇷 Hackers bombard France with DDoS attacks
Hackers have hit French government websites with Distributed Denial-of-Service (#DDoS) attacks in support of detained #Telegram founder and CEO #PavelDurov.
The targets of the attacks included government platforms, public service portals, an online doctor's appointment system and non-governmental websites such as the Institute of Social Sciences and Politics and the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord. An "escalation of these attacks" is expected in the near future, experts say.
@geopolitics_live
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Hackers have hit French government websites with Distributed Denial-of-Service (#DDoS) attacks in support of detained #Telegram founder and CEO #PavelDurov.
The targets of the attacks included government platforms, public service portals, an online doctor's appointment system and non-governmental websites such as the Institute of Social Sciences and Politics and the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord. An "escalation of these attacks" is expected in the near future, experts say.
@geopolitics_live
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Forwarded from Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
France releases the 12 charges against Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
The charges:
1. Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups
2. Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations
3. Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors
4. Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors
5. Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics
6. Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks
7. Complicity - Organized fraud
8. Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years
9. Money laundering
10. Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration
11. Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration
12. Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
ROBINMG 🚀
The charges:
1. Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups
2. Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations
3. Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors
4. Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors
5. Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics
6. Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks
7. Complicity - Organized fraud
8. Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years
9. Money laundering
10. Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration
11. Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration
12. Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
ROBINMG 🚀
Forwarded from Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
'@telegram founder Pavel Durov has been arrested in France and is now facing up to 20 years. Many are wondering what, exactly, is his crime?
According to a report by the EU Disinfo Lab, Telegram has processes in place for reporting child abuse, pornography, copyright infringements, violence, span, drugs, and leaking of personal information.
But it does not report on one (so called) offense: "disinformation".
This is because Telegram refused to sign the "Code of Practice on Disinformation – future Code of Conduct under DSA."
As the EU Disinfo Lab states:
"Overall, at the EU level, the only policy on disinformation enforceable on Telegram consists of the general DSA obligations applicable to all online platforms. Hence, it is entirely up to Telegram to decide if and how it wants to tackle the disinformation challenge."
disinfo.eu/wp-content/upl…
While the media is flinging around terms like "terrorism," "crime" and "money laundering," in reality the likely offense here is that Telegram refused to play ball on disinformation.
There's no doubt the press will continue to make this about crime. And that is nominally true – if you consider a refusal to police (mis/dis/mal)information to be a crime.
And the reality is that what we're witnessing is the criminalization of what someone else defines as disinformation.'
Ashley Rindsberg
https://x.com/AshleyRindsberg/status/1827996532714446881
According to a report by the EU Disinfo Lab, Telegram has processes in place for reporting child abuse, pornography, copyright infringements, violence, span, drugs, and leaking of personal information.
But it does not report on one (so called) offense: "disinformation".
This is because Telegram refused to sign the "Code of Practice on Disinformation – future Code of Conduct under DSA."
As the EU Disinfo Lab states:
"Overall, at the EU level, the only policy on disinformation enforceable on Telegram consists of the general DSA obligations applicable to all online platforms. Hence, it is entirely up to Telegram to decide if and how it wants to tackle the disinformation challenge."
disinfo.eu/wp-content/upl…
While the media is flinging around terms like "terrorism," "crime" and "money laundering," in reality the likely offense here is that Telegram refused to play ball on disinformation.
There's no doubt the press will continue to make this about crime. And that is nominally true – if you consider a refusal to police (mis/dis/mal)information to be a crime.
And the reality is that what we're witnessing is the criminalization of what someone else defines as disinformation.'
Ashley Rindsberg
https://x.com/AshleyRindsberg/status/1827996532714446881
Telegram Founder's Arrest Signals Dangerous Times for Online Free Speech | Reclaim The Net
What’s the message being sent to every tech visionary, journalist, or outspoken citizen? Simple: If you don’t play by the new rules, the state will come for you. They’ve got the handcuffs, the secret orders, and, apparently, the global mandate to ensure that dissenting voices are silenced, one way or another.
This isn’t just about Durov or Telegram. This is about the battle lines being drawn between governments that want absolute control and a shrinking pool of platforms still willing to fight for freedom. These are dangerous times for free speech, and if we don’t pay attention, we might just wake up to find it gone for good.
#Censorship #BigBrother #EU #DSA #PavelDurov #Telegram
What’s the message being sent to every tech visionary, journalist, or outspoken citizen? Simple: If you don’t play by the new rules, the state will come for you. They’ve got the handcuffs, the secret orders, and, apparently, the global mandate to ensure that dissenting voices are silenced, one way or another.
This isn’t just about Durov or Telegram. This is about the battle lines being drawn between governments that want absolute control and a shrinking pool of platforms still willing to fight for freedom. These are dangerous times for free speech, and if we don’t pay attention, we might just wake up to find it gone for good.
#Censorship #BigBrother #EU #DSA #PavelDurov #Telegram
Update on the Western-French attack on @durov /Telegram
The French bureaucracy has said very little on the subject, true to its secretive spirit. However, in one line, it gave an extremely obvious element, on the subject of the "freedoms" that I had mentioned "quickly" yesterday , which only the most observant have been able to read in detail.
Added at the time of proofreading , since the line has become a double-page ...
This is what has seemed obvious for several years and which will explain, with what follows, the obvious accusations.
And that is what it is about: French bureaucrats cannot accept that someone uses and/or provides means of obfuscation in financial exchanges, in circumventing censorship and in circumventing surveillance. This is not possible. And furthermore, making money by providing these means, for a French bureaucrat, is complicity.
Beyond the sole interest in obtaining all or part of Telegram's keys, French bureaucrats will most likely try to dismantle the obfuscation (called "circumvention" of state rules & restrictions in yesterday's article) on Telegram and on TON and the link between the two. And/or punish the offender . To do this, they declare that they are using an important financial case whose resolution is made impossible because of these obfuscations , which allows them to invoke complicity.
In my opinion, we are in for "more" than a few days, even months or years.
Paradoxically, if this is settled in a few days, it is because the bureaucrats will have obtained concrete guarantees that they can ignore all the obfuscations on simple request, and then our dear @durov can be declared cleared of all suspicion in the eyes of the bureaucrats (unless they make him pay for the years during which things have escaped them, and the current delay that allows the beneficiaries to shelter themselves and their money). But in this case, it will be his "investors" who will have suspicions .
If, on the contrary, the case drags on, and even worse, if it even goes to trial and a heavy sentence, this will mean that he has not collaborated on these issues in the eyes of the bureaucrats, and therefore that in their eyes, he is still an accomplice (or that he has revealed to them that he is the incriminated person). But can he collaborate without putting himself in danger ?
In my opinion, we should not be very naive when we talk about big money, billionaire investors in TON, and outrage: the beautiful philosophical values and freedom are used by some, the big words of the charges which frighten, by others.
But it goes without saying that this case has suddenly appeared because those who profit from it are not the French or at worst European or at most Western oligarchs, and they want to torpedo their rivals who circumvent Western rules and laws. Otherwise, it would have been arranged over a meal. Here, the violence against @durov is on a par with the affront that the bureaucrats (and their Franco-European-Western oligarch friends) consider themselves to have suffered. It seems to be a very big affront...
As for the future of Telegram or TON, everything will depend on the outcome of the things that are currently happening in the shadows of French jails and who is currently paying for and controlling Telegram and TON. On this subject, some are talking about associating the penalties for the possible refusal to collaborate with the blocking of Telegram and/or TON in France or Europe, bureaucratically speaking it will be a question of blocking a means used to circumvent the rules & laws.
It will still be extremely interesting.
@durov was impressively naive in going (in every sense of the word) to Paris, French citizenship or not.
@ZZ_0Z_Z0ZZ_fr
#PavelDurov #Telegram
The French bureaucracy has said very little on the subject, true to its secretive spirit. However, in one line, it gave an extremely obvious element, on the subject of the "freedoms" that I had mentioned "quickly" yesterday , which only the most observant have been able to read in detail.
Added at the time of proofreading , since the line has become a double-page ...
This is what has seemed obvious for several years and which will explain, with what follows, the obvious accusations.
And that is what it is about: French bureaucrats cannot accept that someone uses and/or provides means of obfuscation in financial exchanges, in circumventing censorship and in circumventing surveillance. This is not possible. And furthermore, making money by providing these means, for a French bureaucrat, is complicity.
Beyond the sole interest in obtaining all or part of Telegram's keys, French bureaucrats will most likely try to dismantle the obfuscation (called "circumvention" of state rules & restrictions in yesterday's article) on Telegram and on TON and the link between the two. And/or punish the offender . To do this, they declare that they are using an important financial case whose resolution is made impossible because of these obfuscations , which allows them to invoke complicity.
In my opinion, we are in for "more" than a few days, even months or years.
Paradoxically, if this is settled in a few days, it is because the bureaucrats will have obtained concrete guarantees that they can ignore all the obfuscations on simple request, and then our dear @durov can be declared cleared of all suspicion in the eyes of the bureaucrats (unless they make him pay for the years during which things have escaped them, and the current delay that allows the beneficiaries to shelter themselves and their money). But in this case, it will be his "investors" who will have suspicions .
If, on the contrary, the case drags on, and even worse, if it even goes to trial and a heavy sentence, this will mean that he has not collaborated on these issues in the eyes of the bureaucrats, and therefore that in their eyes, he is still an accomplice (or that he has revealed to them that he is the incriminated person). But can he collaborate without putting himself in danger ?
In my opinion, we should not be very naive when we talk about big money, billionaire investors in TON, and outrage: the beautiful philosophical values and freedom are used by some, the big words of the charges which frighten, by others.
But it goes without saying that this case has suddenly appeared because those who profit from it are not the French or at worst European or at most Western oligarchs, and they want to torpedo their rivals who circumvent Western rules and laws. Otherwise, it would have been arranged over a meal. Here, the violence against @durov is on a par with the affront that the bureaucrats (and their Franco-European-Western oligarch friends) consider themselves to have suffered. It seems to be a very big affront...
As for the future of Telegram or TON, everything will depend on the outcome of the things that are currently happening in the shadows of French jails and who is currently paying for and controlling Telegram and TON. On this subject, some are talking about associating the penalties for the possible refusal to collaborate with the blocking of Telegram and/or TON in France or Europe, bureaucratically speaking it will be a question of blocking a means used to circumvent the rules & laws.
It will still be extremely interesting.
@durov was impressively naive in going (in every sense of the word) to Paris, French citizenship or not.
@ZZ_0Z_Z0ZZ_fr
#PavelDurov #Telegram
Forwarded from Digital Fightback
If Telegram is blocked in the UK - how to get back on.
(1) Use a VPN with a non-UK IP.
(2) Use a proxy - search MTProto Proxy in Telegram.
(3) Route Telegram through tor.
The govt can easily block any site in the UK, they simply add telegram.org to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) ban list, which already has 1000s of URLs such as torrent and pirating sites.
At that point, UK Telegram users will be wiped out.
You will still be able to open telegram, and view the cached content, but no new content will load, and you won't be able to post or message.
These three methods will show you how to get back on.
Note: you should experiment with these methods now, since they may be more difficult after telegram is banned. Copy and paste all this text now onto your computer / phone, or send to a different platform, so you have a copy of it, outside of telegram.
1. Telegram proxy list
Proxy MTProto is Telegram's official proxy channel (it has 7M subs). Join it now so the content is cached. Digital Fightback is not associated with this channel and does not make any money from it.
https://t.me/ProxyMTProto
Press 'Connect' on any of the posts. This will change your network settings (in telegram only).
All telegram traffic will now be routed through that proxy. A proxy is simply another computer somewhere that relays your traffic to its destination.
You can determine it's geographical location with a IP lookup online.
The connection is likely to be slower. Some proxies might fail to connect, just try others.
To set it back to default, open the telegram menu, then click Settings - Advanced - Connection type, then select "Use system proxy settings" and press ok.
If/when Telegram is blocked in the UK, you can still open Telegram. Go to Proxy MTProto. The content should be cached there, so you still should be able to click 'connect'.
Telegram proxies are widely used where Telegram is blocked, China, Pakistan etc.
Note that some of these proxies may add you to their sponsor channel - and may be in a foreign language. In that case, choose a different proxy.
2. VPN
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a way to route all network traffic from your device through the IP address of the VPN provider. To avoid a Telegram block in the UK, select a VPN IP in a different country where Telegram is not blocked.
You don't need to change anything in Telegram network settings.
There are free VPNs, but are usually poor quality.
Its preferable to use a paid service, prices are typically around £5/month, with discounts for yearly payments.
Note that your ISP, the govt etc, can now not see any of your traffic. However the VPN provider can see your unencrypted traffic, and the domain names of your https traffic.
3. Routing Telegram via Tor
Tor (The Onion Router) is a way to hide your IP address from anyone watching your connection (ISPs, govts, big tech).
The most popular usage of it is with Tor Browser.
But you can route other programs through tor, including Telegram.
On Desktop, install tor first by the normal method. On mobile, install the orbot app. In both cases, make sure tor is running.
Then go into telegram network settings / connection type (see above), check "Use custom proxy", "Add proxy". In the hostname, write "localhost" and in port put "9050".
Also note that you can get on telegram (channels only, not groups) directly in a browser, without having an account.
Just prefix the channel name with "t.me/s/" like so:
t.me/s/dailyexpose
If telegram is blocked in the UK, then you can use a VPN or Tor Browser to access telegram in the browser.
Then you could access the Proxy MTProto channel, and manually copy/paste proxy details into your network settings.
t.me/Digital_Fightback
(1) Use a VPN with a non-UK IP.
(2) Use a proxy - search MTProto Proxy in Telegram.
(3) Route Telegram through tor.
The govt can easily block any site in the UK, they simply add telegram.org to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) ban list, which already has 1000s of URLs such as torrent and pirating sites.
At that point, UK Telegram users will be wiped out.
You will still be able to open telegram, and view the cached content, but no new content will load, and you won't be able to post or message.
These three methods will show you how to get back on.
Note: you should experiment with these methods now, since they may be more difficult after telegram is banned. Copy and paste all this text now onto your computer / phone, or send to a different platform, so you have a copy of it, outside of telegram.
1. Telegram proxy list
Proxy MTProto is Telegram's official proxy channel (it has 7M subs). Join it now so the content is cached. Digital Fightback is not associated with this channel and does not make any money from it.
https://t.me/ProxyMTProto
Press 'Connect' on any of the posts. This will change your network settings (in telegram only).
All telegram traffic will now be routed through that proxy. A proxy is simply another computer somewhere that relays your traffic to its destination.
You can determine it's geographical location with a IP lookup online.
The connection is likely to be slower. Some proxies might fail to connect, just try others.
To set it back to default, open the telegram menu, then click Settings - Advanced - Connection type, then select "Use system proxy settings" and press ok.
If/when Telegram is blocked in the UK, you can still open Telegram. Go to Proxy MTProto. The content should be cached there, so you still should be able to click 'connect'.
Telegram proxies are widely used where Telegram is blocked, China, Pakistan etc.
Note that some of these proxies may add you to their sponsor channel - and may be in a foreign language. In that case, choose a different proxy.
2. VPN
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a way to route all network traffic from your device through the IP address of the VPN provider. To avoid a Telegram block in the UK, select a VPN IP in a different country where Telegram is not blocked.
You don't need to change anything in Telegram network settings.
There are free VPNs, but are usually poor quality.
Its preferable to use a paid service, prices are typically around £5/month, with discounts for yearly payments.
Note that your ISP, the govt etc, can now not see any of your traffic. However the VPN provider can see your unencrypted traffic, and the domain names of your https traffic.
3. Routing Telegram via Tor
Tor (The Onion Router) is a way to hide your IP address from anyone watching your connection (ISPs, govts, big tech).
The most popular usage of it is with Tor Browser.
But you can route other programs through tor, including Telegram.
On Desktop, install tor first by the normal method. On mobile, install the orbot app. In both cases, make sure tor is running.
Then go into telegram network settings / connection type (see above), check "Use custom proxy", "Add proxy". In the hostname, write "localhost" and in port put "9050".
Also note that you can get on telegram (channels only, not groups) directly in a browser, without having an account.
Just prefix the channel name with "t.me/s/" like so:
t.me/s/dailyexpose
If telegram is blocked in the UK, then you can use a VPN or Tor Browser to access telegram in the browser.
Then you could access the Proxy MTProto channel, and manually copy/paste proxy details into your network settings.
t.me/Digital_Fightback
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Proxy MTProto
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Just a reminder :
The previous post is incorrect if EU zogNato decide to ban channels.Telegram blocks EU based phone numbers linked to users accounts, so this cannot be bypassed by TOR/VPN or DNS .
In a statement, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn said the social network had now barred Kremlin-backed media outlets from using its platform within the EU. “The process is now completed and all RT channels are blocked,” he said. Vaughn said the ban currently applied to only people who had signed into Telegram with an EU-based phone number. The companies' engineers were expanding that to include people with non-EU phone numbers who were physically located in the bloc.
Telegram bans Russian state media after pressure from Europe | POLITICO
The previous post is incorrect if EU zogNato decide to ban channels.Telegram blocks EU based phone numbers linked to users accounts, so this cannot be bypassed by TOR/VPN or DNS .
In a statement, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn said the social network had now barred Kremlin-backed media outlets from using its platform within the EU. “The process is now completed and all RT channels are blocked,” he said. Vaughn said the ban currently applied to only people who had signed into Telegram with an EU-based phone number. The companies' engineers were expanding that to include people with non-EU phone numbers who were physically located in the bloc.
Telegram bans Russian state media after pressure from Europe | POLITICO
🇫🇷 As a side-note concerning Pavel Durov's detention ( Garde a vue ) in France.
It is of public knowledge that detention conditions in France are very bad : no hygiene, difficulties in accessing toilet so people end up peeing in their cell which is not cleaned for every next person put under arrest.No food or very little and sandwich type, often no water for hours.Overcrowded cells, general noisy environment even if we can presume he has been given some form of "special treatment". . Not much if any sleep is possible in these conditions.
These abysmal conditions have been denounced for decades by human rights organisations even at a European level for not respecting human dignity, and basic human rights.
This is designed to break the person, create shock and dehumanize ..
#PavelDurov #Telegram #FreeDurov #France #GAV
It is of public knowledge that detention conditions in France are very bad : no hygiene, difficulties in accessing toilet so people end up peeing in their cell which is not cleaned for every next person put under arrest.No food or very little and sandwich type, often no water for hours.Overcrowded cells, general noisy environment even if we can presume he has been given some form of "special treatment". . Not much if any sleep is possible in these conditions.
These abysmal conditions have been denounced for decades by human rights organisations even at a European level for not respecting human dignity, and basic human rights.
This is designed to break the person, create shock and dehumanize ..
#PavelDurov #Telegram #FreeDurov #France #GAV