Telegram Sparks Outrage Over FAQ Changes Even as Key Language on Private Chats Remains. - eviltoast
Telegram Sparks Concern Over FAQ Changes Even as Key Language on Private Chats Remains - Decrypt
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Despite Telegram removing a line claiming all chats are private, another part of its FAQ section still retains the language.

Telegram is no longer safe for piracy.

I bet they will start kicking out piracy channels in few weeks.

I am going to delete my account now as it will become useless soon anyway.

  • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    But terrible handling of metadata. Which is the case for all chat apps AFAIK. Like, even with OMEMO, who talks with whom, and when, can be exposed. Which sometimes is enough to get legal issues (e.g. Ola Bini’s case)

    • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Speaking about XMPP, compared to centralized services, at least the “who talks to whom” and metadata concerns in general are partially mitigated by not having all the metadata converge towards a single host, being able to selfhost, and being able to host behind tor/i2p/…