Founder and head of Telegram Pavel Durov admits that special services use the terrorist act in St. Petersburg as an excuse to strengthen their influence and control over the population.

He wrote about this in his profile in the social network "VKontakte", "Open Russia".

According to him, the time when information appeared that nearly three months ago Telegram was allegedly used to prepare a terrorist act in the St. Petersburg metro is questionable.

"It's sad if Russia's special services exploit such a tragedy as a pretext to strengthen their influence and control over the population," he wrote..

Durov explained that communication tools such as Telegram or WhatsApp can not be made "insecure only for potential terrorists". According to him, the refusal of encryption "will make tens of millions of people vulnerable to attacks by hackers and blackmail of corrupt officials".

"Moreover, the weakening of encryption in all messengers will lead to the undermining of the country's national security as a whole, since in this case foreign special services will inevitably also have access to all the correspondence of Russian citizens. At the same time, the risk of terrorist attacks will not disappear - as the events in Paris have shown, there are enough disposable phones and ordinary CMCs for carrying out the terrorist attack without any encryption, "he stressed..

As reported by the "Observer", earlier Roskomnadzor threatened the administration of the popular Telegram messenger with a ban on the territory of Russia.

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