Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)(dev.moe)
258 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 147 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Telegram's infrastructure is compromised by FSB-linked personnel, reinforcing suspicions raised by the article
  • Sharing regional user experiences with specific DCs that confirm article observations
  • Speculating about deprecated or unused DCs and their possible special purposes
  • Criticizes Telegram's architecture as unnecessary custom complexity and technical debt
  • ~Provides technical clarification/correction about how MTProto and DC routing actually work