{"id":208261,"date":"2025-09-17T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=208261"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:42:15","slug":"russia-warns-all-messenger-apps-have-backdoors-for-spy-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/russia-warns-all-messenger-apps-have-backdoors-for-spy-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Warns All Messenger Apps Have \u2018Backdoors\u2019 for Spy Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has warned that all messenger apps are riddled with backdoors deliberately installed for spy agencies and intelligence services, making them completely transparent to the global surveillance state.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-208262\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/social-media.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/social-media.jpg 678w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/social-media-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has revealed that people sharing sensitive information on these apps should wake up to the risks, declaring: \u201c<em>All messengers are absolutely transparent systems, and people who use them should understand that they are transparent\u2026\u2026. to the security services<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that it is particularly important to consider the risks when sensitive government or commercial data is shared through these apps, which can be accessed by foreign intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov was commenting on <em>Telegram<\/em> and <em>WhatsApp<\/em> in Russia, as well as the Russian government\u2019s support for developing a domestic messaging platform.<\/p>\n<p>Russian security services have accused <em>Telegram<\/em> and <em>WhatsApp<\/em> of using double standards for refusing to share data with the Russian authorities about fraud and terrorist plots while complying with similar requests from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>In July, a member of the State Duma\u2019s committee on information policy and technology, Anton Nemkin, called <em>WhatsApp<\/em>\u2019s continued presence in Russia a \u201c<em>legalized breach of national security<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian law enforcement officials have said that Ukrainian intelligence, along with other malicious actors such as swindlers and con artists, often relies on databases containing personal data obtained through <em>WhatsApp<\/em> and <em>Telegram<\/em> to recruit agents or identify targets inside Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024, the US government also warned senior officials to switch to encrypted communications after a security breach in which a group of hackers stole data, including information stored under US government surveillance protocols as part of \u201c<em>legal<\/em>\u201d wiretapping of American suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nSeptember 17, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has warned that all messenger apps are riddled with backdoors deliberately installed for spy agencies and intelligence services, making them completely transparent to the global surveillance state. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has revealed that people sharing sensitive information on these apps should wake up to the risks, declaring: \u201cAll messengers are absolutely transparent systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censored-news-social-5127-en-censored-sensational-news-3480-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208265,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208261\/revisions\/208265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}