If a central server can be DDoSed, it doesn't feel like a "secure" service.<p>If everything's routed through a centralized hub, the hub could serve as a way point for attacking maliciously weakened end-to-end encryption via MitM interception, and collector of identifiers for metadata like device phone numbers.
They likely mounted attacks against Youtube when Guo Wengui was doing high profile live-streaming in 2017.<p>It wan right before he was scheduled to start, he lives in NYC.<p><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3816099/is-youtube-down-east-coast-of-america-hit-by-major-outage-as-video-site-goes-down/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3816099/is-youtube-down-east-c...</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/PekingMike/status/875706450869399552" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/PekingMike/status/875706450869399552</a>
What a weird title.<p>Telegram says this is mostly affecting the Americas <a href="https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1138768124914929664</a><p>The article itself says "IP addresses coming mostly from China" which would accurately describe most botnets.