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  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago
    This is offtopic here, but here is an answer 🙄 (click to expand)

    why do you stand against Telegram as a secure and optimal solution for the majority

    Because it isn’t secure. It is marketed as being secure, and it is not. It is snake oil.

    Just to clarify, are you aware Telegram is blocked in Russia by the government

    yes, i am aware that they are (again) currently blocked. i’m curious your theory for why they were unblocked after the previous blocks? (note: please don’t actually reply to this question here; see end of this comment first)

    mostly because the former does not want to share data with the government standing for the privacy, if I am not mistaken?

    yes, you are mistaken.

    Russia has strengthened and later weakened their restrictions on Telegram various times over the years for reasons which are probably unknowable without insider information. What is clear is that Telegram is absolutely sharing data (which they’ve chosen to design their service such that they can have access to) with various governments at various times; assuming that they never would share any with Russia is nonsensical. The extent to which they willingly share which data with which governments, versus which governments access data without their cooperation (by compromising their servers or coercing their engineers, which gives access to message contents due to their lack of e2ee) is not particularly interesting.

    Beyond that, I recommend that you post on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world or somewhere similar if you need people to explain why telegram is offtopic in communities about privacy technology. (This discussion is very offtopic in this thread so I won’t reply further here. If you really feel the need to argue about the above I recommend you do it in a new thread somewhere it isn’t offtopic; if you tag me maybe i’ll reply there.)

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      Roger that. Thank you! See, there’s a difference. I stated actual links to my statements to for what I got banned. You provided none, and I won’t consider them.

      Regardless, perhaps someone else will find the Communities you shared, or “off-topic” mentioned several times relevant and useful, since I didn’t, sorry, being on Lemmy for 4 years now with more than 2 decades on IRC since UnderNet, OFTC, Freenode (now Libera) etc. where I got some social online interaction experience, and where actual specialists could back me up pointing to actual evidence.

      Please do consider clarifying at #security on Libera IRC if you ever interested in discussing the security and optimizations of Telegram, including their great ideas as TGS format in 2015-01-02 similar to Lottie (2015-02).

      Since, at this point, it feels like you haven’t done a more in-depth research of their encryption backed by public bounties. Unless, you know more than I do, and if so, please do share actual references in addition to the one I did in the message I got banned that stated possible issues with their algorithms back then:
      - http://web.archive.org/web/20260326213422/https://rys.io/en/179.html


      And, it’s worth to mention that the moderators at the Community you referenced do delete questions even if those are “not stupid”.
      Please check the following: https://lemmy.world/comment/24262211 (Yet, their question, and my answer with others’ answers, were just deleted…)