{"id":140855,"date":"2022-06-20T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/telegram-is-not-a-secure-platform-nato-backed-strategic-comms-chief-warns"},"modified":"2022-06-20T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T23:03:39","slug":"telegram-is-not-a-secure-platform-nato-backed-strategic-comms-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/telegram-is-not-a-secure-platform-nato-backed-strategic-comms-chief-warns","title":{"rendered":"Telegram is \u2018not a secure platform,\u2019 NATO-backed strategic comms chief warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telegram-is-not-a-secure-platform-nato-backed-strategic-comms-chief-warns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Telegram, a leading encrypted messaging and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> application, has been compromised by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>, according to a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\" target=\"_blank\">NATO<\/a>-backed assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelegram is not really as it used to be,\u201d Janis Sarts, the director of NATO\u2019s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, Latvia, told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. \u201cI do have reasons to believe that there is not full integrity. \u2026 Certainly, I would not see it as a secure platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The messaging service, founded in Dubai by a Russian tech titan who has clashed with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s surveillance apparatus,<b> <\/b>rocketed to global popularity in 2014 as one of the first applications to offer users the ability to communicate on an encrypted line. It <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/belarus-telegram-extremist-subscribers\/31511257.html\" target=\"_blank\">proved<\/a> valuable to Belarusian <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/more-than-500-protesters-arrested-in-belarus-after-90-days-of-demonstrations\">protesters<\/a> who <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/national-security\/belarus-opposition-biden-fight-putin\">denounced<\/a> President Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s self-declared victory in a 2020 presidential election, but a warning about the program has begun to circulate among Western officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram, a leading encrypted messaging and social media application, has been compromised by Russia, according to a NATO-backed assessment. \u201cTelegram is not really as it used to be,\u201d Janis Sarts, the director of NATO\u2019s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, Latvia, told the Washington Examiner. \u201cI do have reasons to believe that there is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}