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Murtaza Hussain
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"Telegram will disclose users' phones and IP addresses to authorities at their requests, the messenger app's founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, said on September 23." Its over for Telegram. Durov caved really fast too. https://www.rferl.org/a/telegram-durov-dsclosure-phones-ip-addresses-authorties/33131064.html
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Ultimately this will be a net good I think. So many people trusted Telegram when it was never a secure option. Hopefully people will move to Signal and Session for more sensitive conversations, and web3 can move to XMTP finally 🤞
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it does nothing to actual illegal actors, there have been tools and smart ones used them before telegram existed, jabber I think only allows government to catch stupid criminals and gives them excuse to look up everyone’s messages
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This is a good mental framework to approach this for those in need of strong privacy like journalists and political dissidents. Assume everything is weak and harden to the maximum degree. Still from that viewpoint, the hardest option is the best starting point because if it’s not colloquially used, it’s kind of an obvious target. ie if you see signal on someone’s phone, you might be able to assume they’re leaking to journalists or conspiring with dissidents. I prefer to approach this like you would approach private financial transactions. Unless the pool of private transactions is enormous, the privacy is effectively lost.
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I combined a number of points there that might better have been made each in long-form. Hopefully you were able to follow my train of thought.
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