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About 70 percent of Ukraine's population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting that the global reliance on Microsoft by every government could potentially pose an issue?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Obviously yes, it is catastrophic for security to use windows, macos, android, ios. Anyone trusting this software is a fool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indeed but my point here is that Ukraine is at war with Russia...

Ukraine is not at war with US. So risk is Microsoft being imbeciles... Russia literally wants Ukraine wiped out and yet the idiots unable to change an app on their phone because "network effects and habit"

Just wow

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Russia literally wants Ukraine wiped out and yet the idiots unable to change an app on their phone because "network effects and habit"

The thing with Zelensky's propaganda is that externally (with people familiar with the situation only from CNN (or whever you get your information from..)) it works an order of magnitude better than internally.. :)

So "idiots" use Telegram because not only they see no threat in it (why would they?), but also because it helps to avoid the very real threat of "lawful mobilization actions" by the government.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Russia larper spotted

Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I hear this quite often :)

Every Ukrainian who doesnt want to die for Zelensky is a Russian, yeah yeah yeah heard that one more times than I can count.

Cheers :)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Zelensky's Propaganda

Oh my...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I know, right? I was also shocked when I discovered that it's not just the evil-evil Russia who does the propaganda thing! :)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

As if telegram was better than signal in avoiding state sniffing. Security by design is always better than security by trust.