For the last 24 hours Telegram has been under a ban by internet providers in Russia. The reason is our refusal to provide encryption keys to Russian security agencies. For us, this was an easy decision. We promised our users 100% privacy and would rather cease to exist than violate this promise.

Despite the ban, we haven’t seen a significant drop in user engagement so far, since Russians tend to bypass the ban with VPNs and proxies. We also have been relying on third-party cloud services to remain partly available for the rest of our users.

Thank you for your support and loyalty, Russian users of Telegram. Thank you, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft – for not taking part in political censorship.

Russia accounts for ~7% of the Telegram user base, and even if we lose that entire market, Telegram’s organic growth in other regions will compensate for this loss within a couple of months. However, it is personally important for me to make sure we do everything we can for our Russian users.

To support internet freedoms in Russia and elsewhere I started giving out bitcoin grants to individuals and companies who run socks5 proxies and VPN. I am happy to donate millions of dollars this year to this cause, and hope that other people will follow. I called this Digital Resistance – a decentralized movement standing for digital freedoms and progress globally.

💥 #TELEGRAM #UPDATE💥

FInally, after 5 Months and 20 Days,
TELEGRAM Android App again becomes Open Source, as source code gets released. (Longest period ever, in release history)

Not a nice thing to put reputation on the line, but all is well that ends well 😊

Find updated source code below
🌐➖https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram
🎁➖ @IndiaTheJumla

UPDATE
Regarding the "WhatsApp Security flaw" news,
Telegram has clarified that "Media irresponsibly reported that "the same" vulnerability was discovered in Telegram" which is not true &
"Telegram never had this issue".

Read the detailed response on & why you should not be really worried.
🌐 http://telegra.ph/Checkpoint-Confusion-NEWS
🎁 @IndiaTheJumla
#Security #Hacking #Whatsapp

💥 #MESSAGING 💥
WhatsApp Security flaw could allow hackers to take over millions acc's 'in sec's' 😱 Just by making you open a photo

🌐➖https://goo.gl/oKYliI & https://goo.gl/U7qmwX
🎁➖ @IndiaTheJumla

ℹ️ #Internet #Threats #Privacy

Happy Birthday WWW.
Inventor of the Web, outlines 3 Biggest Threats, to save it.
Losing Personal Data control is one of them❗️

🌐 http://telegra.ph/WWW-is-28-Yrs-old-Today-Inventor-of-the-Web-outlines-3-biggest-threats-to-to-save-it-03-13
🆔 @NoGapps

😎 #SMART TIP No. 35 😎
8 Basic Tricks to Take Better Photos With Your Phone

Given every random person on street with a mobile phone, considers himself/herself a photographer these days 😋,
Here are 8 basic tricks to actually give some respect to a good mobile phone camera & get good shots👍
1) Learn the rule of thirds
2) Find a steady support
3) Change your focus
4) Use the physical shutter button
5) Apply HDR mode automatically
6) Make the most of natural (or artificial) light
7) Take photos in a burst
8) Clean the lens

CheckOut
🌐➖ http://goo.gl/RZvb5s
🎁➖ @IndiaTheJumla

💥 #POKEMONGO MANIACs 💥
➖Driver playing Pokemon Go crashes into police car(Video caught on BodyCam)😳😐
➖Example of a Silly VIRTUAL Game ruining REAL Lives?

Via
📹➖https://goo.gl/8PncuO
🎁➖ @indiaTheJumla