rdri
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- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
A replacement isn’t a clone
You know I wasn’t asking for a replacement. You’re suggesting e2ee-first software to people who might not really need it in the first place.
Personally, when I think about all the quirks and requirements that must be met for some chat to happily accept a new member in a e2ee scheme, I get mad. My daily chats, gifs and cat photos aren’t worth everyone’s effort and discomfort.
Also, I use WhatsApp not because I like it but because it’s easier than forcing dozens of people to use something else. I hate it because of how it works, and it doesn’t have anything to do with e2ee part (it’s worthless for stuff I use WhatsApp for). I like that it dropped electron though - I value my ram.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
That’s wrong. There is no plaintext transfer. While a lot of stuff can potentially happen on server every second as you said, it doesn’t happen according to them. I don’t trust that fully either but that’s their argument. You can look up encryption schemes in their faq.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
Use for what? Are there alternatives that aggregate news, have bot support, non-electron clients and immediately sync between desktop and mobile?
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
Where something publicly exists anyone can set up a local archive to capture anything, regardless of what’s available at the moment of joining the chat. Also telegram has such a setting too. It’s useless when someone really wants to get you. They won’t need an access to telegram servers to get you.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
When they explained it it was specifically stated that it should be either impossible or too difficult. Keeping keys and content separately, that’s what it’s about iirc. Either way the point of telegram is not in privacy for everyone. You trade protection for convenience (cloud data and great clients), and if you want you can use secret chats. That’s it. Seeing their user base, it suits most people. We’ll see if their server data gets leaked or something, though it didn’t happen yet.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
It’s just doesn’t really enhance privacy like E2E and I find it disingenuous to say “my chat app is encrypted” when you mean server encryption not E2E.
FWIW when they said that the “e2e” boom has yet to happen.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 2 months ago:
Oh believe me, group chats are encrypted. Problem is, most of them are public, so that’s only to protect them from being exposed to dump/search server side. And yeah, their encryption is not e2e. That’s encryption nonetheless.
- Comment on subs > dubs 1 year ago:
My dude is not a man of culture… yet. No worries, at some point you’ll understand, I’m sure.
- Comment on Free sex... (party)*… Become poor dog 1 year ago:
REINCARNATION