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Why on Earth would we want to ban ISIS channels rather than closely tracking ISIS channels for opsec failures and dropping bombs or SWAT teams on participants?
by mapt 11y ago
Why on Earth would we want to ban ISIS channels rather than closely tracking ISIS channels for opsec failures and dropping bombs or SWAT teams on participants?
- msoad 11y agoTelegram has end-to-end encryption. It's impossible
- babuskov 11y agoHow hard would be for them to MITM their own app?
- drdaeman 11y agoNah, they got more marketing than security. E2E is only for one-on-one chats, and it's not even enabled by default. Channels, broadcasts, groups and whatever else they call multi-user conferences are NOT E2E encrypted and servers should have full access to the plaintexts.
- nickodell 11y agoEven if they were encrypted, these are groups with hundreds of users. The odds that one of the users is a spy (or that they just leave their phone on a bus) is basically 100%.
- sean-duffy 11y agoThey're banning channels, which are public broadcasts which anyone can see.
- jaflo 11y agoThere's a fundamental misunderstanding here. Telegram banned a public channel. These public channels do not feature end-to-end encryption.
- fulafel 11y agoEncryption only protects confidentiality of message contents, you can still see who's talking to who (traffic analysis), when they're doing it, etc. See traffic analysis.