Ignoring the context.

Don’t pirate over Telegram, it’s no longer safe in terms of privacy and legal safety.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Evidently it was.

    Encryption shmencryption, there was a reason people used TG and not WhatsApp and it’s because the former just very clearly doesn’t glow and it’s why Durov was arrested and not Zuckerberg. The technicals are only a part of it, the politics are arguably far more a part of it.

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      2 months ago

      I wonder how many terrorist (and “terrorist”) plots that were foiled were from compromised telegram messages. How many Ukrainian airstrikes were called from similar sources. My gut says a whole lot more than people think. Since nothing is encrypted, one backdoor is all the NSA needs to read everyone’s group messages. Like the much lamer version of Crypto AG, because in this case it’s an open secret.

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        2 months ago

        Why would they go through all the trouble when they could simply join the channels by posing as people who belong?