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The Kremlin Has Entered the (Telegram) Chat
- Sunspark 4y agoIt's a problem that software is becoming a cold war battleground. "Upload your contact list, to find your friends."
- moose_man 4y agoThe sooner Silicon Valley comes to grips with the fact the world has fundamentally changed the better. The F-22 has been around since the 90s without any air to air engagement. This last week it happened 2x. If tech lives in its own world where it can do anything to grow user base or make money then society will crush it. It's mind boggling that tech hasn't grasped this yet. The same privileges society has given to tech on the way, can be taken away and used against to bring it to heel.
- consumer451 4y agoHere is an interesting alternative I just discovered: "This app will self-destruct: Belarusian hackers made an alternative Telegram for activists" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757104
- jacooper 4y agoTelegram is the least trustworthy chat messenger, even less than WhatsApp. Its has no real E2EE chats, only secure chats that are feature crippled and aren't supported on all clients. It also costs a crazy amount of money to host, unlike WhatsApp, telegram stores everything, every photo, every message, every video, they got to subsidize that somehow, and for a long time we were just told the Telegram's founder is paying for it(BS), and The newly introduced subscriptions aren't even close to covering the hosting costs. something gotta give, and having no encryption, justified by inaccurate reasons doesn't inspire confidence. And if that's not enough, telegram took usernames from user channels and sold them for crappy crypto, including brand names that can for sure be used for scams.