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It's funny: everyone is bashing Telegram. - IT people as it's "insecure by default" - Governments, because it doesn't block easily what they want (happens in
by szszrk 5y ago
It's funny: everyone is bashing Telegram.
- IT people as it's "insecure by default"
- Governments, because it doesn't block easily what they want (happens in most western countries, including my own)
- TV/Media as they don't know/care about facts and just bash whomever is talking bad about them or local gov (as my local media does)
Meanwhile most news and videos I see in media, twitter accounts that media quote, are actually on Telegram groups first. There is plenty of them, one that I watch is close to 1 million people and this platform handles such groups (and larger) perfectly. It has native clients for many platforms that beat anything else in performance and memory consumption by a factor of 10. It introduced direct translations in the app, so anyone who doesn't speak Ukrainian and Russian can actually follow up on their own. It allowed distribution and updates of their app outside of google play store and that version has no restrictions enforced by governments.
I see so much "Durov is a Russian agent" stuff online, but still somehow Telegram is on of the main sources of information for average people - if they know it or not.
- throwmeariver1 5y agoThat's such a bad take it's not even funny. An asset like Telegram works best if it pretends to be neutral and only leaks information to one side of the conflict.
- szszrk 5y agoBut does it leak? Is it any different than any other social network? It's well known that big networks simply sell your data if you pay handsomely. Facebook does that on a large scale, even including partial messages content. Heck, it was recently confirmed that Messenger was used to coordinate Chechen's attack recently. Does it make FB compromised by Russia? How one even compare these networks? Why don't you call Messenger an asset? Or google maps after recent revelations (that may as well be bullshit) that it was used to coordinate bombings?
- throwmeariver1 5y agoEverything centralized is a potential intelligence asset it's for you to decide whom you are willing to potentially give your data to. For the leaking part with not encrypting all private messages and no encryption support for group messages everything screams for a oops didn't meant to scenario. Software problems or hacking it will read: "We couldn't have done anything, sorry. Next time just enable encryption mhmkay?"
- szszrk 5y agoAll you say is true, although here a "leak" was meant as a leak of information to foreign government to be used as intelligence.