I think it was hard because we had to learn all that abstract advanced stuff (Plusquamperfekt Futur II Temporaladverbial Reflexivpronomen, all that shit) that you’ll probably not learn in a language course for non-native speakers and that you don’t need to know to speak the language in normal life.

Important detail that is missing in the article and that some are getting wrong in the comments: This is not about forcing messengers to add backdoors for mass surveillance or weakening the messenger/its encryption in general (although that indeed is the wet dream of some governments/agencies). It’s about infecting the phone/device of a suspect with spyware (either by hacking remotely or with physical access, although in secret of course) and sniffing their communication before it’s encrypted/leaves the devices (or after decryption for incoming messages). Every case must be individually approved by several judges so cops can’t just use this willy-nilly, the crime they’re investigating must be quite serious (punishable by at least 10 years in prison) and it’s limited to 30 cases per year.

tl;dr:

• Hüseyin Dogru and others worked at “redfish”, a russian propaganda outlet owned by russian state propaganda media Ruptly/Russia Today
• When “redfish” was sanctioned for being, well, a russian owned propaganda outlet, Hüseyin Dogru was in charge of liquidating the company
• At the same time he registered a new company called “red”
• He and others from “redfish” seamlessly continued working at “red” (including the managing director of “redfish”)
• Their “redfish” telegram channel was simply renamed and is now the telegram channel of “red”
• “red” is funded with “donations from [undisclosed] organizations and individuals”

Make of that what you want, but it’s the same people as redfish and they couldn’t even be fucked to get a new telegram channel or at least think of a company name that’s just a tiny little bit more different from the last one. If they’re not a continuation of “redfish” then for some reason they tried really hard to make it look like they are. Hüseyin Dogru calling Ukrainians “nazis” and the threat from russia “fictitious” also doesn’t really help distinguishing them from russian propaganda.

I’m 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.