Anyone who used Telegram as a private communications channel in the first place is an idiot.
Comment on Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests.
crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish Telegram would just enable default E2EE. Oh well, time to switch to Signal!
30p87@feddit.org 1 month ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Anyone who thinks they can have privacy near a computer is an idiot.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Just keep in mind that any service that asks for a phone number can also disclose it.
I hope what leaves the Signal client is a hash of your phone number, rather than the number itself. They might even be using salts and expensive-to-execute key derivation functions, to mitigate brute force searches (which are otherwise easy given the relatively small search space of phone numbers). But if compelled, it would be trivial for Signal to change that behavior.
spiderman@ani.social 1 month ago
Telegram would never do that.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
And if they had implented that to begin with and used servers that kept no logs he wouldn’t have anything of value to hand over.
He built the damn situation for himself, and the fact that such issues weren’t considered practically screams “honeypot.”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe we could say he wouldn’t be in this situation because he could’ve responded to every request his company got and they could’ve provided all of the zero logs they had.
I believe Telegram just wasn’t cooperating at all which is wild! Such a Musk thing to do.