Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests.
Telegram will disclose users' phones and IP addresses to authorities at their requests, the messengers' founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on September 23.
Look at that!
A few nights in French jail worked wonders.
It's like I always say, violence and torture work so well you don't even have to do them in the first place. Just saying you will unless they comply is enough. That's why we're the good guys.
About that last bit...
Durov -- who has citizenship in France as well as Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Caribbean archipelago of St. Kitts and Nevis
How can someone have four simultaneous citizenships?
Is it money? Gotta be money.
In Canada and New Zealand you can literally buy citizenship. You just need the funds. It’s a real and legitimate process.
I wonder if anyone rich enough has decided on undertaking the quest to get and hold as many citizenships as possible.
There'd probably be difficulty though getting simultaneous citizenships for North Korea / South Korea citizenship, Russia / Ukraine, or Republic of China / People's Republic of China.
In Australia you can buy permanent residency, which is then a pathway to citizenship.
Oh hell yeah it's money. It's called economic citizenship and there are plenty of countries out there that are willing to let you buy in with ownership of properties and business.
There are only a handful of countries out there that don't allow dual citizenship.
How can someone have four simultaneous citizenships?
My kids are entitled to 5 citizenships. 2 from me and 3 from their mum.
I only use Telegram for my Warhammer 40k group..Authorities seizing that will get them years of mindless chatter about the Emperor, memes and battle reports. Fuck they will pay us to leave Telegram
How can someone have four simultaneous citizenships?
Most countries let you have multiple citizenships. Unless a country restricts you from doing so, you can have as many as you want.
I wish Telegram would just enable default E2EE. Oh well, time to switch to Signal!
And if they had implented that to begin with and used servers that kept no logs he wouldn't have had anything of value to hand over and they would have had to release him since he physically could not provide those things.
He built the damn situation for himself, and the fact that such issues weren't considered practically screams "honeypot."
they would have had to release him
Maybe we could say he wouldn’t be in this situation because he could’ve responded to every request his company got and they could’ve provided all of the zero logs they had.
I believe Telegram just wasn’t cooperating at all which is wild! Such a Musk thing to do.
Just keep in mind that any service that asks for a phone number can also disclose it.
I hope what leaves the Signal client is a hash of your phone number, rather than the number itself. They might even be using salts and expensive-to-execute key derivation functions, to mitigate brute force searches (which are otherwise easy given the relatively small search space of phone numbers). But if compelled, it would be trivial for Signal to change that behavior.
I also don't trust Signal.. And I won't gonna switch a 4th time. I might as well switch to Matrix chat now.
I'm not sure how much we can trust matrix either to be honest. There's some cryptographic flaws in their Olm Library. https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/
As it turns out being both secure and convenient is very difficult
Here.. SimpleX comparison table.. Signal is also centralized.
Telegram would never do that.
Anyone who used Telegram as a private communications channel in the first place is an idiot.
Anyone who thinks they can have privacy near a computer is an idiot.
OK bye bye Telgram. Now I need to migrate everything again again again.
Just choose good solutions up front. Then you won't have to migrate. Use Signal
No!! I don't go for signal. That is a centralized alternative. And I'm indeed trying to avoid to migrate again!
Maybe Matrix.. Or maybe Simplex sounds better..
People who signed up on Telegram were set up to fail right from the get go. It doesn't feature default E2EE, it's not private, it's not secure... but there were plenty of users on there looking to buy whatever dark net goods and services you can offer. It's completely stupid when there are much better alternatives out there, but people go wherever other people are, just moving as a herd instead of a lone wolf. With everything that has happened over the last years, including the arrest of the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet devs, it's clear that it's no longer possible to resist the government in any way out in the open anymore.
