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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Signal always responds to authorities when they ask for data, and they give them all they have: the day they registered, their phone number and the timestamp they last used the app.

Telegram has unencrypted channels of drug dealing, and what I heard is a lot of illegal porn too. The authorities want information on certain users there and Telegram doesn't comply. This is directly against the law Signal is not breaking, because they always send all the data they have to the law enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Telegram is a propaganda weapon in some sense, between two worldviews - one is "a good service doesn't require trust, because they physically can't sell you", another is "a good service you can trust because they won't sell you". And Telegram helps the latter.

So frankly - kill it with fire. Sadly I'm in Russia and everybody uses it here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hilarious that it's impossible. They don't even horde your data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is it time stamp of last usage, or time stamp of all messages?