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I'm motivated by curiosity.
I'm a big believer in Europe.
I consider myself a legal citizen of the world.
I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.
When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.
Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.
I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.
I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.
The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.
I'm a peaceful creature; I'm vegetarian. I don't like wars.
It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.
One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not afraid to die, if I have to.
I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.
To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.
I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.
We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.
The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.
Terrorists will always find a way to communicate. They will always find a solution.
I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.
I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.
Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.
Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.
Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it's just wrong.
Whenever technological advancement is made it can always be used both for good or for bad.
At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.
The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.
Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram.
You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.
We don't put a dollar toward marketing or advertising. I think we're more efficient than Facebook.
I believe that at some point we should come up with a business model that would make us sustainable.
To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.
Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.
Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.
WhatsApp deliberately obfuscates their apps' binaries to make sure no one is able to study them thoroughly.
Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.
We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.
It's super-interesting to see what it's like to run the most popular social media platform in a country like Iran.
VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API.
Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country.
Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.
Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.
If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private.
In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.
The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.
For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.
There's always a risk that your iPhone can be stolen, and the people who stole it can use the data, your private photos, etc. to blackmail you.
As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.