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Telegram Shared Data of Thousands of Users After CEO’s Arrest

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Glad I've never used it.
- Does that mean you would've used it for illicit things? I mean you're fine if you just used it as a messaging app... lol
Why wouldn't it? They had all the data in plaintext, they just chose not to cooperate. This was the only possible outcome.
Telegram used to be so darn satisfying to use years ago, but as soon as they started peddling a crypto"currency" it all went downhill. Deleted my account a month ago.
In my country it was never seen as anything else than a disinformation platform for Russian shills and rich "famous" people posting shit about invermicin and corona.

Sinal, Threema for security. WhatsApp/Wechat for Family. Telegram... for family you don't want but sadly have.
- And where I am at, Telegram is just the main social network nowadays. VKontakte became unusable garbage even for an average person, Facebook never gained traction in the first place, Instagram and Tiktok are not that suitable for communities, Whatsapp is purely a messenger - and Telegram appeals to everyone, being a hybrid of a social media and messenger. So, while I was able to avoid Whatsapp, Telegram is actually hard to leave. Unuversity, art meetups, education channels - all there. I did get a few people to use encrypted messaging with me, but most don't care about privacy because Telegram is convenient and everyone is on there.
Isn't that app basically fake signal with Russian bots? What's the use, except spreading fake news and ratting out activists... oh wait.... that IS the purpose!!!
Well let this be a lesson that encrypted messaging hosted on corporate servers is only encrypted as long as the authorities allow it.

Also criminals gonna get in trouble.
- Telegram isn’t encrypted. There’s an option but nobody uses it and doesn’t work in group chats.
- It never was encrypted. If it was they wouldn't have anything to turn over.
  
  This is false. There is still plenty of metadata that centralized providers can capture and turn over and that is usually sufficient for law-enforcement to get the information they want.
Just remember Telegram also shared Taiwan user data do China during the protests.
This will continue to happen until someone bigger than the US gov steps up to bat and drops feds on their asses in a pile when they try to arrest them. The day is coming, I'm looking forward to the news reports of federal officers being carried unconscious onto either a grassy area, or just a pile in front of the building, and being told if they try again they die. I want to see feds crying like the little bitches they are...
- Dafuq?
- Username checks out.

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