Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms.
On Tuesday, the government said it was restricting access to Telegram for the “protection of Russian citizens,” accusing the app of refusing to block content authorities consider “criminal and terrorist.”
Russia’s telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement that it would continue to restrict the operation of the Telegram messenger “until violations of Russian law are eliminated.”
Frankly, I get it. Telegram has no security nor privacy at all
It has the worst privacy but somehow a lot of content and little censorship.
because it has the best (not one of the best, the best) UX of any of its brethren and normal people are super forgiving about them non-important things once they get used to the fluidity and glitz of weirdov’s app.
I have first hand experience with forcing (apt term) normies to use XMPP and Matrix clients in a corpo setting and am witness to the abject horror they experience when they clash with the dogshit apps these lunatics claim are production ready.
Right, and forcing Russians to MAX renders the entire platform distinctly less interesting for us in the West.
There is a reason every illegal operation runs on Telegram, not Signal. The security is good.
Or it’s because the platform is nearly unmoderated and has benefited greatly from the network effect.
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About that… None of these are safe. Signal is not safe either.
that looks like the control panel(?) has full access to the target device already. usually when talking about security of communication softwares we don’t consider this kind of attacks…
That is true, but also this entire “control panel” is ai generated. Lots of smudgy text, misspelled words, bad number formatting, etc.
lmaoo yeah you’re right, wtf
yeah, if they get full access to your device no amount of end to end encryption will avoid that
no matter how secure the chat app protocol is, as long as one of the users in the chat is compromised they can access to those chats
is anything safe?
Only the federated networks, no one controlling entity nor country, best part is open source, because we the people, get to say what goes, and what doesn’t.