Let me guess, closed source (client and server) using custom encryption.
Hope to be wrong in both accounts.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Are you serious? The KGB has full access to VK.
Or course everything that is posted on this shit service will be fully tracked.
FSB if to be more accurate
Depends how you look at the russians' approach to security service "reform" post 1991. 😄
I wasn't making a pedantic statement.
Or a fork of an open source project
Hard doubt. Unless it's a closed source fork
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?
Its called Telegram
It's so much effort spying on you all. Can you send it directly through our servers instead?
Are there substantial numbers of Russians who seriously wouldn't be wise to this?
seems legit