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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let me guess, closed source (client and server) using custom encryption.

Hope to be wrong in both accounts.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you serious? The KGB has full access to VK.

Or course everything that is posted on this shit service will be fully tracked.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends how you look at the russians' approach to security service "reform" post 1991. 😄

I wasn't making a pedantic statement.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or a fork of an open source project

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hard doubt. Unless it's a closed source fork

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Of course it’s a closed source fork 🤣

Did you really assume I thought they’d open source their national spyware system on fucking Gitlab?