2025-06-10
Telegram uses a single, FSB linked company as their infrastructure provider globally. Telegram's MTProto protocol requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages. — Combined, this makes it into a surveillance tool
OCCRP
Investigation: Russian network engineer Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers; his companies have FSB links
INVESTIGATION — The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. Bluesky: @kevinc...