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The removal of the Telega app from the App Store was apparently related not only to the security scandal but also to the project's infrastructure issues. These concerns two domains, which, according to the publication, are related to the project: telega.me and api.telega.info.
After this label was added, sources told Code Durov , Telega effectively began a process of being rapidly pushed out of major platforms.
One of the key events in this chain was the revocation of the TLS certificate by the international certification authority GlobalSign. This certificate confirmed the project's authenticity and was used for secure HTTPS connections.
According to one expert, the certificate revocation could have been a critical factor in the app's presence in the App Store. However, the publication's sources differed slightly on the details. One believes that the certificate revocation was the decisive factor, and the Cloudflare label merely initiated the chain. Another, on the contrary, believes that the main factor was the recognition of Telega's domains as "spyware," which then led to Apple revoking the certificate and removing the app. Their argument goes something like this: if the problem had been merely a technical certificate replacement, the developers could have reissued it relatively quickly and restored the app to working order. But since the issue was specifically about certificate revocation against the backdrop of a more serious reputational and infrastructure assessment, the situation turned out to be more severe. As a result, the third-party client disappeared from the App Store . And this occurred amid an already high-profile scandal surrounding Telega: the app had previously been actively discussed due to suspicions of possible MITM traffic interception . @ Anti-Malware
After this label was added, sources told Code Durov , Telega effectively began a process of being rapidly pushed out of major platforms.
One of the key events in this chain was the revocation of the TLS certificate by the international certification authority GlobalSign. This certificate confirmed the project's authenticity and was used for secure HTTPS connections.
According to one expert, the certificate revocation could have been a critical factor in the app's presence in the App Store. However, the publication's sources differed slightly on the details. One believes that the certificate revocation was the decisive factor, and the Cloudflare label merely initiated the chain. Another, on the contrary, believes that the main factor was the recognition of Telega's domains as "spyware," which then led to Apple revoking the certificate and removing the app. Their argument goes something like this: if the problem had been merely a technical certificate replacement, the developers could have reissued it relatively quickly and restored the app to working order. But since the issue was specifically about certificate revocation against the backdrop of a more serious reputational and infrastructure assessment, the situation turned out to be more severe. As a result, the third-party client disappeared from the App Store . And this occurred amid an already high-profile scandal surrounding Telega: the app had previously been actively discussed due to suspicions of possible MITM traffic interception . @ Anti-Malware