Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
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Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
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For every smart educate person it is obvious that Telegram is honeypot created by Russian-Dubai oligarch
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Telegram is very successful in getting people off Meta's ecosystem. It has open source clients and very good Linux support.
This is why western media is obsessed with Telegram and spend a lot of time smearing it.
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Telegram literally stores all your messages, metadata, etc. in plain text on their servers. This means that it provides considerably worse security than even proprietary messengers, such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Telegram has an option for encrypted chats, but it's not available for groups, lacks support for voice and video calls, and Telegram deliberately goes out of their way to make the experience of using encrypted chats as painful as possible.
You're even better off using WhatsApp, but if you actually want a good messenger, switch to Signal. It's free and open source (both the clients and the backend server), developed by a nonprofit organization, and it's basically the gold standard for encrypted communications.
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What jurisdiction does the FSB have over you? None, and it has zero interest in helping those that do. This is the rationale for not worrying about backend security on Telegram. Transport security is a another question.
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Assuming everybody in this community is an nth-generation American citizen, maybe the FSB itself doesn't endanger you. But this blog post was not written with only you in mind.
I would encourage you to read more than the title of a blog post before you critique it. At least skim around. ๐
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I'm not American. The fact is that the FSB is only a threat to those with Russian citizenship or who live within the Russian Federation. Let's be real: that's not the vast majority of people reading this.
I would encourage you to read more than the title of a blog post before you critique it. At least skim around.
Thank you for the condescending advice, and you're correct that I didn't read it - but in this case, why would I bother? The argument is right in the title, it's been made a hundred times before, and apparently needs refuting 100 times too. There are reasons for Westerners not to use Telegram. This isn't one of them.
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