Hi everyone, It feels like a decade since I posted here. As a side project, I spent several obsessive weeks doing everything I could to convince Biden to resign from the presidential campaign. What have you been up to? What have you been thinking about?
I am following the arrest of Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov, which took place while many French people are on vacation. According to *Libération*, he is accused of complicity in the possession of child porn, drug trafficking, and organized fraud. Also, "criminal association with a view to committing a crime" (conspiracy, I guess?) and money laundering. He's also accused of refusing to communicate to the authorities *"the information or documents necessary for the realization and exploitation of interceptions authorized by law."* According to the *New York Times,* he is also in trouble for operating encryption without a license (I didn't know that was a thing. Is it just for CEOs who operate in France, or for everyone?). That's a lot of accusations. Are they trying to intimidate him? It seems that they are trying to punish the road and not the driver. He operates a service with end-to-end encryption (sometimes--it's opt-in) and won't cooperate with the police to hand over data. What is your analysis of this situation? I'm wondering who else may be in danger of arrest, and what kind of precedent this sets for encryption. And unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't look like anyone is rallying around Durov, who is an imperfect victim. Should they? -Kate Krauss -- *Subscribe to Liberation Tech: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt <https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt>*
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