Posted on 08/31/2019 10:41:10 AM PDT by fuzzylogic
Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app, will allow users to cloak their telephone numbers to safeguard Hong Kong protesters against monitoring by authorities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the effort.
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We do as a family, despite all the warnings on here about how because this is also a tool of terrorists we are now considered terrorists just for using it. It works very well...
I like it, but it’s not well known, so it’s difficult to find others who wish to use that platform.
It’s a lot like WhatsApp,
Telegram was banned in Russia. So it must be pretty useful.
“It’s a lot like WhatsApp”
Absolutely not. It is so secure compared to whatsapp that even many government officials around the world use it for secure communications.
If my teen age grandkids are to share pictures with me, I have very good confidence that perverts are not getting and stalking these. It is point to point encryption. The encryption is generated randomly each session by the client on each end. It is practically impossible to decrypt it through the services it passes through. And here is why the government doesn’t like it. IT WORKS.
Absolutely... It WORKS.
You may be correct about the security measures, but the up front end looks nearly identical.
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I spent a week studying it before loading it up and using it. I even posted a thread here asking here for opinions. Most of what I got was wrong and in conflict with what I understand as a techy.
What I got was “it works so good the terrorists use it, and if you use it you will be put on a terrorist list for even using it”. Yeah... Because it WORKS. I don’t care if they spend months to hack it looking for us as terrorists, what they will find is how much one of my granddaughters loves Snoopy. But in the meantime Perverts cannot follow at will like with other services.
But people do:
"But wide adoption of the optional security setting would make the app far harder to use for the vast majority of its more than 200 million consumers, who rely on uploading phone contacts to identify friends and family members on the app, the source said."
LinkedIn has a similar feature, where you share your personal contact list.
Building such network data is among the best possible ways to plan surveillance of an individual.
I think the encrypted person-to-person communication is good. It’s my understanding that it’s a distributed system too. That the Hong Konger’s are using it is a good sign.
That said, most of the groups I’ve joined have lots of people that are saying things that expose exactly who they are, where they live, etc. - also using the mic to record what they want to say without typing.
Most of these groups must have plenty of government lurkers. I suppose you could keep a serious group quite secret if only trusted members were allowed - would have to be a pretty small group though.
Good deal. Glad you read your report on it.
Thank you.
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