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by ryanlol 6y ago
> assuming it is in the ballpark of true It is. It’s very easy to generate big money with ad replacement or proxies.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Tinder on the other hand has been completely ruined in big cities thanks to this free “tinder passport” thing. Browsing Tinder in Westminster with the search distance set to the lowest possible, half the people you see are 1000s of miles aw
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by ryanlol 6y ago
You vacuum seal the weed once or twice and you’re good, use mylar bags if you’re feeling fancy. Most of the weed vendors aren’t shipping internationally so they don’t need to worry about dogs.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>The current narrative According to whom?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>when Russian associated actors leaked the NSA toolset Has anyone actually attributed TSB to Russian actors? I don’t think so. The US government certainly hasn’t made such claim, to my knowledge the mainstream press hasn’t made such a cl
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>often I really don’t like doing this, but [citation needed]
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying. Why not? Sharing stolen source costs them nothing, and nation state hackers have budgets just like the rest of us. They probably wouldn
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by ryanlol 6y ago
It is all over the internet lol. Windows source has always been frequently traded.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Immediately termination is pretty much the industry standard.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
The debugging symbols and most of the source is out there, this really isn’t a particularly difficult task. If you can’t do this, then you certainly aren’t qualified to claim that such a backdoor exists.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
You’re not wrong, but “50 year maximum sentence” is off by at least an order of magnitude.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Why does Telegram make all important security features opt-in?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
This is hilariously out of touch. If the telegram team is based out of UAE, then the UAE government can easily force them to hand over data even if it’s stored on foreign servers.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
I don’t get it, this claim should be fairly easy to prove by reverse engineering the app.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>but apparently there's still a way for Facebook to give FBI et. al. un-encrypted chats, no? I’d love to see a source for this.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> I am quite aware how un-ergonomic such a messenger would be so I know that Telegram does little more than TLS protection of the network socket. And that's fine with me and with millions of others. The amount of people who understa
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> Deep in a sub-thread another poster pointed out that they rely on SIM identification which can be spoofed, for example. You missed the point, again. Not only does Telegram rely on your phone number to identify you, but unlike the compe
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by ryanlol 6y ago
You don’t seem to actually respond the criticism, instead you just dismiss it as “half-baked snark” or with “other apps do bad stuff too!” You complain about the quality of discussion here, but do little to participate in a constructive man
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> Unencrypted Yes?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
The NSAKEY backdoor claim should be trivial to prove with a debugger, until someone does so I think we can safely dismiss it as a lie. It’s been two decades, and nobody has been able to explain how it would’ve been used.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Why are you so bothered by Telegram receiving some well deserved criticism? It’s weird. There are lots of posts on HN I don’t care about, but I don’t think I’ve ever had the urge to make comments like yours. > In any case, the constant h
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> What's so uniquely awful about Telegram? Telegram puts its users in danger by lying to them. They claim to be a secure, encrypted messenger but do not actually encrypt chats. Then there’s the backdoor... >I am not shilling for
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Yes, they have opt-in e2e secret chats. Oh, except the Windows and Linux clients don’t even support those.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>I haven't read the comment though Maybe do that. Not being snarky, you’re missing important context.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
I think you’re completely missing the nuance in the words surrounding the authors mention of “Hanlon’s razor”. Besides, look at Pavel Durovs flagkilled reply here. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>(and his) point stands: it's likely incompetence That’s not what the post is saying. > It's very biased and uncharitable It’s not “very biased”, if you actually look at what Telegram did the balance of probabilities leans h
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> absolutely terrifying seeing the scales keep tilting heavier & heavier towards fewer & fewer options This is just not happening. Except apparently in the minds of many HNers who live in some bizarre alternate reality.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
How is AWS anything like an “utility”? There are hundreds of viable hosting options for large sites.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
It’s really obvious this wasn’t a bug, but a backdoor. It proves that Telegram is an actively hostile adversary, the fact that their encryption scheme hasn’t been publicly broken since then doesn’t change that. > Or 'backdoors'
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by ryanlol 6y ago
https://m.habr.com/ru/post/206900/ FiloSottile described it as “The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen” https://twitter.com/filosottile/status/987376021589692416?s=...

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