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I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
> Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. No, not really _hacked_. You give your phone unlocked to the police, and they access your Telegram account. You can't refuse, and you probably can imagine why.
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
If you and your group chat friends can meet up in person once to input an agreed upon a ~1Gb one-time-pad then you can exchange uncrackable text messages for years on any insecure channel I’ve long felt that this is the ideal solution for anything super super secret
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
> Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. No, not really _hacked_. You give your phone unlocked to the police, and they access your Telegram account. You can't refuse, and you probably can imagine why.
Odd choice of title when the subject of the thread is exposing compromise of elections using vulnerabilities not necessarily native to Gmail or Telegram.
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO. Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally ju…
> My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software That's the only way to make sure you're using software you trust, but rolling your own crypto implementations is often not so secure (because of the many pitfalls).
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> Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented. No, not really _hacked_. You give your phone unlocked to the police, and they access your Telegram account. You can't refuse, and you probably can imagine why.
Actually really hacked. What you said also happens of course, but hacks are routine as well. Happened to 2 people I know personally. They do it by intercepting the sms code at the cell operator level.
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Actually really hacked. What you said also happens of course, but hacks are routine as well. Happened to 2 people I know personally. They do it by intercepting the sms code at the cell operator level.
I do not use Telegram: what SMS code?