**My understanding of the charges against Pavel Durov & Telegram**
I am not a lawyer, nor a french lawyer, but I have a long term view of the matter and here’s my understanding of the [charges as taken from the press release](https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf ):<li>Complicity web-mastering an online platform in order to enable an illegal transaction in organized group,</li><li>Refusal to communicate, at the request of competent authorities, information or documents necessary for carrying out and operating interceptions allowed by law,</li><li>Complicity possessing pornographic images of minors,</li><li>Complicity – distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in organized group,</li><li>Complicity – acquiring, transporting, possessing, offering or selling narcotic substances,</li><li>Complicity – offering, selling or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, tools, programs or data designed for or adapted to get access to and to damage the operation of an automated data processing system,</li><li>Complicity – organized fraud,</li><li>Criminal association with a view to committing a crime or an offense punishable by 5 or more years of imprisonment,</li><li>Laundering of the proceeds derived from organized groups offences and crimes,</li><li>Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration,</li><li>Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration,</li><li>Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration.</li>
1: is essentially a commentary on some of the users and what they have been using the platform to do (mens rea / guilty mind / conspiracy
2: is for refusing law-enforcement requests for content (?) access
3..7 inclusive: are based on the theory that the platform which knows *<bad thing>* is available (in cleartext?) on the platform, is complicit in the distribution of *<bad thing>* — viz: actus reus for: CSAM, drugs, hacking tools, and fraud, respectively. See the thread at https://twitter.com/flogsell/status/1828309446499443113 and my contribution at https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1828342854596379026 for more details.
8..9: speak for themselves on the basis of the others; charge 9 may possibly also be related to taking advertising revenue from channels filled with badness?
10..12: are based on the 2004 laws restricting access to privacy and other aspects of cryptography: see https://alecmuffett.com/article/110312
I take great home from the [observation by John Carr that this kind of dramatic virtue-signalling by the French police, has a history of collapsing](https://alecmuffett.com/article/110307 ).
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110316
#endToEndEncryption #france #pavelDurov #telegram
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