Telegram temporarily blocks five Ukrainian open-source intelligence channels without explanation
Telegram temporarily blocks five Ukrainian open-source intelligence channels without explanation
Telegram has removed at least five Ukrainian OSINT (open-source intelligence) channels without explanation.
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It always kinda baffled me that Ukraine was willing to rely on Telegram, you know, a Russian company.
Russia is not all black, why do you think Telegram is getting as much backlash from states, media and every government that wants more control over certain groups?
"Organized use of the app has been linked to pro-democracy protests in Belarus,[250] Russia,[251] Hong Kong[252] and Iran,[253]"
From Wikipedia
I don't believe anyone is safe using a smart device if three letter organisations have any serious interest in your persona but i would bet that it is still one of the safer options if you take convinience of usage into play.
Used to. ruZZian government was attacking it hard and then suddenly stopped. After they started cooperating. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia
Well they blocked half of the russian internet while not beeing able to shut it down, i think it plausible they just gave up and made it look like a win. I don't think military groups, secret service orgs and even Isis would be using it if there was any more danger than a bot scraping your group in an attempt to detect keywords. I much rather believe Durows arrest in france might have something to do with wider chanel blocks and deletes. I might be wrong, but i trust my guts on the credo "judge a person [app] by the enemys they make" and Telegram seems to be very high on the hitlist of any organ trying to break user privacy.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/54339
For me in this case the preferred approach is the Occam's razor - fsb found a way to take over. But following your credo, telegram is absolutely prohibited in the Ukrainian army - either they know or the risk is too high. Which is kind of the same thing.
looks more like the company caved in (prolly under immense political and legal threats from the state). Saver option to just ditch anything Russia had its hands in.
No kidding. I've been iffy about the service since experts were skeptical about their custom encryption algorithm (I think) they created.