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Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Unlike whatsapp and signal, telegram private chats are not synchronized. So if you lost your phone and started a new one, the chats will not magically recover as in whatsapp.

That's not true. Signal stores all messages on device.

or do you mean that encryption is not enabled by default in every chat? This is not an indicator of the messenger's privacy.

Encryption on Telegram only works in 1 on 1 chats and is turned off by default meaning no one use it.

Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag in c/[email protected]

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

Yes, e2e encryption in Telegram only works in secret chats.

[email protected]: What are the best ways to minimize fingerprinting on Firefox? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Try out Librewolf it's Firefox fork which is hardened out of the box so you don't have to mess with settings too much.

Use a spare router as a server in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Router like this are very low spec for example Fritz!Box 3270 has 360 MHz 1 core CPU, 64 Mb of RAM and 16 Mb of Flash. Only thing you can do with them is flashing OpenWrt, but its latest version doesn't support devices with or less than 8 Mb of flash and 64 Mb of RAM.

Are there any tools out there to compare Privacy Policies against each other? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Tosdr

Exodus showing different permissions than system settings. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I will add that this are permissions requested by the app and this doesn't mean that system granted access to them.

Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reddit exlcluded porn from showing up in all

How much do I actually lose with a cutsom ROM? in c/[email protected]

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world in c/[email protected]

Whatsapp has begun working on support for third party chats (Telegram/Signal) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (20 children)

No, EU lunched 5 months investigation to decide whether iMessage is big enough.