Back to episode — Episode 2582 CWSA 08/30/24
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like a war, like let's say Ukraine against Russia, one of the things that would be really important to winning the war, especially a long ongoing kind of affair, is how well your team can communicate without getting intercepted. So you want to be able to quickly talk to your own team if you're in war, but you don't want the other team to be able to intercept your stuff. Well it turns out that the…
← Previous segment →ypted military app? Well it turns out that the only thing they trusted was the Telegram app. That's right. The soldiers who were actually in the thick of battle didn't have a better option than opening their phone and using the app to say, you know, you should target this or you should get some supplies over here or get some reinforcements over here.
So if NATO could get a hold of a back door, hypothetically, into the Telegram app, they would have all the communications of the Russian military. And it doesn't look like the Russian military had a really good second option. So there's a possibility that Ukraine could win the war if NATO controlled the Telegram app without Russia knowing they controlled it. In other words, if we had a back door but Russia didn't know it, so they kept using it, Ukraine would know everything they're going to do before they do it. Now I'm exaggerating. You know, I'm sure they have other ways to communicate. But according to the Wall Street Journal it was like the main way they were communicating was through Telegram because it was owned by or at le
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ast it was housed in the UAE, which has a good relationship with Russia. So the Russians were thinking, well we can't use WhatsApp because the Americans are going to be all over that. So that was the one they trusted. So allow me to make a prediction. You're ready for the prediction? The prediction will be that at some point the CEO will be released and you will be under the impression that he di…
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