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Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy.

All this talk of encryption and sopenas is mostly pointless - all the police need to do is join any of the Telegram channels and see the evidence for themselves, like in this case - https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350438242/man-who-wanted-build-gallows-hear-jacinda-arderns-neck-snap-guilty-threats-kill

No doubt there are private channels but there's absolutely no shortage of criminal stuff happening out in the open.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

all the police need to do is join any of the Telegram channels and see the evidence for themselves

I mean, that doesn’t tell them who any of those people are?

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- KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s what that’s what subpoenas are for, to request the ip address and other identifying information are for. The documentation of activity in the channel is the evidence shown to a judge that then gets the official legal request.
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    That’s what that’s what subpoenas are for
    
    Did you just not read the part of their comment that I quoted?
    
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    KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I did. Then I replied and here we’re are.
    
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- rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Half of them use their real name. Also a lot of them are sharing links to content they've posted using their personal FB account or whatever. They don't even try to have any opsec because they don't think they're doing anything wrong.
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Half of them use their real name.
    
    Which would never be admissible as evidence in court. I could make an account right now using your name, would that make you criminally liable for anything that I say?
    
    Also a lot of them are sharing links to content they’ve posted using their personal FB account or whatever.
    
    Do you think I couldn’t create a FB account with your name? Do you know how many friend requests I get every day from redundant accounts trying to masquerade as people I’m already friends with?
    
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