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Telegram adds option to let users report content on app two weeks after CEO Pavel Durov's arrest After almost 2 weeks of CEO Pavel Durov's arrest, Telegram will start moderating private chats as well.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/telegram-halts-end-to-end-encryption-for-personal-chats-two-weeks-after-ceo-pavel-durov-was-arrested-2594919-2024-09-06

this all seem confusing, there's no such thing as "private" chats on Telegram, only secret chats which are E2EE, well even their encrypting is questionable

Web rendering engine written in Rust

I guess I'll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

😆 mental ?! I already have my list in my browser bookmarks

VC funded, not exactly a community project, I'm skeptical, and worried about it's future

It's my go to messenger, idc about the crypto stuff, it's just a way to reward volunteers who use their servers for all the mathematical conversions, and I have been thinking of running a node myself, to make the network more decentralized

It has some downsides though, you can't send larger files than 8mb, and if you lose your recovery phrase, you're compromised, and you can't edit messages

I used to tell people to use Signal or Element, but I noticed many can't even sign up, Session just generates a random ID for you, and voila..

like WWE wrestling ?!

these 20 people are awesome :D

Piped and Libretube stopped working for me, they're requiring sign up now, it's sad :(

That's not a hard proof, people keep saying Intel ME and AMD PSP are potential backdoors ( key word: potential ) and this argument is good if we're arguing about: which is the best ISA, an Open ISA ( RiscV ) or closed ISA ( x86 )

I was asking for a general example, I know that Mediatek chips included a backdoor but I only found one article that talked about it .. In french..

Mobos : I think it's MSI ( I could be wrong ) that installed a piece of software through a Bios update, which showed they have privileged remote access capabilities ( I couldn't find that source, sorry )

Another example would be ASUS and Gigabyte Mobos, now the initial source says it came from the second hand resellers, but no one confirmed that.. which is scary... because that would mean it came straight from ASUS and/or Gigabyte

I was asking for incidents that you came across that could demonstrate the presence of firmware backdoors, saying having too many bugs is not a good argument, because all software has bugs.

Examples ?

First time I heard about it was from this youtube channe...called "all things secured" but I don't remember the video , he said police officers stopped him and plugged a USB C on his phone, after a few moments they let him go..

this article discuses the same situation but I'm sure you can find other sources

Ohh.. wow.. 🤯