According to founder and CEO Pavel Durov, the cryptocurrency-friendly instant messenger Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses for a few years now. Durov took to his Telegram channel on Oct. 2 to clarify his recent post about disclosures of IPs and phone addresses of accounts found to be involved in criminal activity. “My previous post may have seemed to announce a major shift in how Telegram works. But in reality, little has changed,” Durov claimed in the most recent communication to his followers. Telegram’s account disclosures had been in place “long before last week”According to D…