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Telegram will start moderating private chats after CEO’s arrest (archive.ph)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The company has updated its FAQ page to say that private chats are no longer shielded from moderation.

Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page that said private chats were protected from moderation requests. The change comes nearly two weeks after its CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France for allegedly allowing “criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.”

Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform, a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide.”

“Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,” he wrote in the statement shared on Thursday. “That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.”

Translation: Durov is completely compromised and will do whatever NATO tells him to do. Do not trust in the security of Telegram, which frankly was never that good to begin with. And do not trust anything else even remotely connected to the company or Durov personally.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The "hacker community" in the US which it springs from is so buddy buddy with the US security state that I don't think a public humiliation like this will be needed. I don't have any evidence signal is compromised, but I suspect they've at least picked an architecture that the security state is okay with. And it isn't used for mass media like telegram was, it doesn't scale like that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The "hacker community" in the US which it springs from is so buddy buddy with the US security state that I don't think a public humiliation like this will be needed.

My favourite funny hacker-to-fed pipeline story is Beto O'Rourke. Everyone nowadays knows him as a failed DNC puppet. But he spent much of the 1980s as a founding member of the famous hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow under the handle "PsychedelicWarlord".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah that one's pretty funny. All the prominent ones now seem to be fed-aligned too though, while actively promoting their hacker persona and supposedly anarchist-leaning politics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hmm.jpg

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

But he spent much of the 1980s as a founding member of the famous hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow under the handle "PsychedelicWarlord".

wowee

I don't know what to do with that information. I was such a fan of the CDC as a kid. That's even worse than when L0pht sold out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Cult of the Dead Cow under the handle "PsychedelicWarlord".

Insufferable douche was probably also posting "Church of the SubGenius" stickers everywhere in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe Signal received funding from the CIA’s VC firm. These apps need to be secure enough for dissidents and spies to use, but like you said, I imagine the state is content with its security or else they would be more heavy handed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah idk what to think. Tor too, its genuinely quite good as far as I can tell, but the background is a bit sus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Matrix as well, although that's Mossad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

if all the people chirping about how matrix is shit/compromised and I need to RETVRN to XMPP are right I'm gonna be so annoyed. I'm slowly starting to feel like they might be

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

the CEO of the company i work at is ex-NSA and he is always pushing everyone to use Signal so that leads me to believe it is completely compromised