gm, wake up babe

telegram sold all user data to russian government, now it's official

forbes.ru/tekhnologii/498530-mts-dogovorilas-s-telegram-o-reklamnom-partnerstve

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What am I missing in the article? It’s mentioning a partnership with Мобильные ТелеСистемы — I’d assume they have a relationship with the government (who doesn’t in Russia, you’re kind of forced to), but what about the deal means what you say it means?

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mts is virtually owned by russian government and now tg gives the government mapping between phone numbers and tg accounts

then you can match phone number to other data from other sources and boom you have a mapping between tg account and your home address

ah, gotcha. this is one of the things i dislike about signal – though not the worst of things. at least signal has E2EE for group convos, even if an inefficient model.

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I'd like to see Signal actually make a meaningful move with PQC, their current proposed change still hierarchically binds to EC as the root authority, so it's kind of a moot point. Also, maybe not Kyber given some curiosities happening with the NIST selection process.

agreed on signal, very much looking forward to no-cellphone signal accounts (they need to come soon)

@pugson this is how you should've asked the question to get more data (no bs like "i'm already doxxed doesn't affect me haha")