[liberationtech] About Telegram

[Maxim Kammerer]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rather than admitting their mistake, Telegram doubled down on their bad
> crypto, and began making claims that it's the cryptographic community, not
> themselves, who don't know what they're talking about. Then they published
> that silly contest which Moxie made a brilliant mockery of.

They also “declined [Moxie's] suggestions for collaboration of any
kind”, and then some guy who actually got his hands dirty instead of
writing brilliant mockeries won $100k from Telegram. I can only
imagine the butthurt in the “crypto community” — I laugh every time
when rereading this story.

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Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte