Ukrainian intelligence services admit that Telegram contains a number of threats to the security of both the country as a whole and ordinary citizens who use the messenger.
DIU says Using Telegram is dangerous
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) is currently trying to solve a problem that everyone who uses Telegram channels has.
The DIU speaker, Andriy Yusov, stated this.
As for Telegram, the threats it poses to society are real. It is not about individual users or media presented on this platform but about the platform itself. It contains several threats to the information, and not only information, security of our country. Yes, this question needs to be answered, and I think it will happen.
Andriy Yusov
DIU speaker
According to Yusov, everyone would like to have answers to all questions and a magic button that turns off everything that poses a threat, but, unfortunately, there are no such simple answers.
Therefore, Ukraine is now building communication with the administrations of all platforms, including Telegram, to work according to transparent rules per Ukrainian legislation and following international standards.
And this is a challenging task, Yusov emphasised.
With some it turns out to be better to decide, with others it is more difficult. Telegram is the most difficult. This is a constant, multi-level work: both on the territory of the platform itself by creating content that would destroy myths, clarify and cover the target audience, and work from the point of view of normalizing the activities of these platforms. All these measures are being taken, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Ukrainians should not use Telegram
The AFU Main Directorate of EW and Cyber Security chief, Colonel Ivan Pavlenko, advised Ukrainians not to use the Telegram social network.
Yehor Aushev, an expert from the NGO "Institute for the Study of Cyber War", stated that Telegram is currently a legalized "darknet" (a completely anonymous, unregulated and uncontrollable part of the Internet — ed.), in whichspecificn individuals can now distribute information of various nature. There is no influence on this information. He advises Ukrainian military personnel and their families not to use Telegram for safety.
What is wrong with the Telegram messenger
According to Maksym Savanevskyi, CEO of PlusOne communications agency, to use Telegrusuallylly, most users give access to their contacts.
If you do not grant such access, it is practically impossible to use Telegram normally for personal correspondence. By transferring access to contacts, you transfer all the contact data that you have specified — name, phone, email, maybe an address or even some comments about this person (Telegram itself claims that it stores only names and phone numbers from your contact book on its servers , but this is also enough).
Savanevsky draws attention to the fact that this gives a lot of information about a person: the field in which he works, the city of residence, what services he uses and even, perhaps, what kind of lifestyle he leads.
The mostexcitingg thing is that even if a person's phone number is unknown to Telegram and has never used this messenger, it is possible to identify such a person through other people's notebooks.
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