No espionage charges. He is sitting in jail rather than compromising his users. If they had access otherwise, they wouldn't need to go to such extremes.
This is absolutely the test case for doing the same to Musk.
Per Visegrad: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1828113086714151114
France releases the 12 charges against Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
The charges:
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Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups
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Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations
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Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors
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Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors
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Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics
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Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks
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Complicity - Organized fraud
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Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years
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Money laundering
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Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration
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Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration
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Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.
For 10-12, what are prior and certified declarations? Does France have a rule where you're not allowed to use certain publicly available encryption tools without government permission? Cause that's beyond stupid, given that there's plenty of effective encryption algorithms which are publicly available for anyone who wants to to use. Why does the govt need to know what functions I'm importing from a library in my code?
And if encryption stuff is being done right, then #2 is absurd because Telegram shouldn't be storing keys anywhere, and without keys (or govt breaking of the encryption) then turning over anything will just be giving the govt gibberish.