It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger." Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works: 1/

There’s so much to unpack here

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Our CEO and co-founder, JG, adds a "positive note" to Clare_'s piece for Insurance Times this week: "TechTalk: Crypto stock market crash could burst AI bubble for insurtechs." Please click here to read: bit.ly/4cv3eE0

Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.

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So it appears that Pavel Durov has been using cryptography without a license.

Before the internet, we had the right to private conversations. No one thought the government would be justified putting microphones in our homes to prevent them. Privacy was a right we took for granted. Today it's a right we must fight to protect.

This could get crazy if true. Telegram messages are not encrypted. France is trying to arrest the CEO of a Russian team that has plaintext access to every message the French president has ever sent or received.. “Macron has been a Telegram user since…” politico.eu/article/telegr…

How do we know Telegram is neither private nor secure? Russia tells us: politico.eu/article/telegr…

Yet another example of why not trusting your infrastructure and tools as much as possible is the *bare minimum* for security. Doesn’t matter if you think a company/service/government is trustworthy now, and will be trustworthy in the future (and there’s a lot being stuffed into

VCs interested in free speech issues, note: the reason free speech/decentralized social media startups and app distribution systems don't exist is because nobody would fund them, because social media was largely considered a solved problem. How's that working out in Brazil?

I have long argued that rather than calculus, stat 101 should be mandatory for all university students regardless of major. I would also not object to game theory. No better tools for spotting BS.

Regardless of political leaning, if you are: Against access to information (even if wrong) Against reasonable privacy In favor of telling people what they are allowed to think/read You are the bad guy. This is not partisan. The cure to speech you don't like is more speech!

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Ok Mullvad VPN is the example of security *by design*: The company does not store any form of data (no IPs, no logs.) They don’t even offer recurring subscriptions (!!) because doing so would force them to store data that can identify people. No affiliation: just awesome

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Great, we can all stop pretending Telegram is secure or private. Let’s all please use Signal theverge.com/2024/9/5/24237…

Jake Chervinsky Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 Wait you don't think the CEO of eBay should go to jail if someone sells stolen goods on there (and never disclosed they were stolen)?