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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  @Joe Laws are not the problem. We just need enlightened laws that manage to accurately capture the technology it is for.

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  Joe 6 years ago

  I have to agree @sigg3. I brought this point up the other day in a comment here. Unless we are willing to forgo our lives we have to abide by the law. The laws are the problem in privacy.

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  Mukt 6 years ago

  Telegram's only plus point over Whatsapp, as far as privacy is concerned, is that it is not owned/controlled by any of the PRISM companies: Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo, or Microsoft.
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  More details, for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29

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  Stolensoul 6 years ago

  Telegram has always been weird concerning privacy issues. So nothing surprising here.

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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  Yep. Fact of the matter is that you cannot trust a third party in handling secrets at the level of a sovereign country. A sovereign is entitled to a lot of things and will also go to war. Private companies exists only within a judicial system. So avoid the problem by not relying on private entities that fall under the sovereign's jurisdiction. Use trustless solutions where you can.
  
  (Speaking of which, check out Wireguard. It looks very promising.)

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