Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have long considered Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy. Now, based on findings published by the investigative journalism outlet IStSongs on the Security of Networks
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META, attenzione alle pagine fake che sfruttano la violenza sulle donne per truffarvi
https://www.open.online/2025/06/23/meta-attenzione-pagine-fake-sfruttano-violenza-donne-truffa-fc/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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META, attenzione alle pagine fake che sfruttano la violenza sulle donne per truffarvi
L'operazione avviene rubando le foto e i video di ragazze straniere per convincervi a scaricare un AppDavid Puente (Open)
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“Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.”
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The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience
Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical lyrics.The Conversation
It's always Monday on the Moon - @dgar
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La storia infondata della fuga di Netanyahu in Grecia
https://www.open.online/2025/06/23/storia-infondata-fuga-netanyahu-grecia-fc/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La storia infondata della fuga di Netanyahu in Grecia
A bordo dell'aereo c'era un'altra personaFabio Verrecchia (Open)
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Why one homeowner has turned her front lawn into a political statement
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Stunning win moves Keegan Bradley closer to Ryder Cup playing captain status
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/06/23/keegan-bradley-ryder-cup-travelers-championship-tommy-fleetwood/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
Link: bleepingcomputer.com/news/linu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
An official in the administration of President Donald Trump has told The Grayzone that CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla have become vehicles for Israel’s Mossad and military as they seek to manipulate the US into attacking Iran.
The Trump official referred to Ratcliffe as “Mossad’s stenographer.”
Ratcliffe and Kurilla have pressured Trump to join Israel’s war.
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The maga regime intends to judge foreign student applications based on the students' opinions of various things about the US. One requirement forbids "Any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government,
New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
Diplomats to look for ‘indications of hostility towards citizens, culture or founding principles of United States’Andrew Roth (The Guardian)
"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…Pivot to AI
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Iran Knows Well the Consequences If It Striks Americans, Jaffer Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-06-23/jamil-jaffer-on-possible-iran-retaliation-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM
Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...
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AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM
Over the past three days the new AMD 'GFX1250' GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end.www.phoronix.com
Algú vol organitzar un #FediPasseig #FediPaseo per Barcelona? Estic llegint el codi de conducta (groctel.codeberg.page/fedipase… ) i crec que podríem fer el passeig de Sant Joan fins a la Ciutadella (osm.org/go/xUbRn7nF-?m= ), crec que és prou accessible, són 40 minuts amb lleuger desnivell, voreres amples i concorregut.
He estat mirant també el mapa d'ombres (shademap.app ) que ha compartit en @ Shine_McShine@neopaquita.es però ara a l'estiu és difícil trobar ombra per allà.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Que vagi bé la FediPassejada!
Si us animeu, podeu donar documentar-ho breument a l'àgora de fedicat.
Val! He fet un resumillo a l’àgora. Merci per venir, especialment a les que veníeu de lluny!
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FediPasseig a Barcelona
Després de les FediFestes, arriben els FediPassejos 🙂 Fa poc una personeta va proposar organitzar passejades amb gent de la Fedi. La cosa va agradar i se n’han fet alguns per la península.Fedicat
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Sana alimentazione, le raccomandazione del CSS belga
Il Consiglio Superiore della Sanità del Belgio ha pubblicato delle semplici linee guida per una sana alimentazioneSara Rossi (Il Fatto Alimentare)
🏎️ "Esplora l'eccitazione della pista come mai prima d'ora con le migliori postazioni di guida F1 del 2025. Vivi la velocità! #F1Racing #SimulazioneAvanzata"
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Migliori postazione di guida F1 (maggio 2025)
Quali sono le migliori postazioni per giocare a F1 su PC? Abbiamo risposto a questa domanda, dividendo la guida in diverse fasce di prezzo.Giulia Serena (Tom's Hardware)
🖥️ Alla ricerca del miglior monitor gaming economico di luglio 2025? Orologio di pixel perfetto, tempo di risposta rapidissimo e grande valore! #MonitorGaming #Risparmio 💰
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Migliori monitor gaming economici (luglio 2025)
Quali sono i migliori monitor economici per giocare su console nel 2025? Andiamo a scoprirlo in questo articolo dedicato!Giulia Serena (Tom's Hardware)
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Hintergrund, warum Nager IT die Maus übergeben: nager-it.de/maus/uebergabe
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Neue, gemeinschaftliche Basis für die faire Computermaus mit Nager IT e.V. & MYZELIUM
Was? Köpfe zur Zukunft von NagerIT mit Interessierten zusammenstecken, solidarisches Geschäftsmodell durchspielen und nichts Geringes, als die Zukunft unserer süßen, fairen Computermaus retten.MYZELIUM eV
The Heart of Tuscany: Where wine, food, and hospitality meet
Discover the best Tuscan wineries that go beyond tastings—where fine wine, farm-to-table cuisine, and warm Italian hospitality are found.Lee-Ann Steyn (Getaway)
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唐突惡臭?金曲獎公布頒獎嘉賓卻混入「野獸先輩」迷因 | udn遊戲角落
第 36 屆⾦曲獎今(23)日公布 11 名頒獎嘉賓名單,但第三位嘉賓陳星翰(Starr Chen)竟將自己的臉 P 上日本知名迷因「野獸先輩」身上,讓知情網友不禁笑稱是「唐突惡臭」。udn遊戲角落
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Una analisi di Rocco D'Ambrosio, docente di filosofia politica alla Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Chi vota i populisti favorisce le guerre
Ogni guerra porta con sé diverse cause (e relative interpretazioni): storiche, geopolitiche, religiose, economico-finanziarie, diplomatiche e così via.Rocco D'Ambrosio (Globalist.it)
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gigarivista scottiaca con segretissimo numero, trovato così nel vedere colì
A distanza di 2 anni (…io pensavo 1), chi si ricorda Scottecs Gigazine? Probabilmente nessuno, neppure io onestamente. Però, l’altro giorno mi è tornato in mente che esiste, giusto per caricare su TomoStash una manciata di volumi molto vecchi che ho trovato sull’agrodolce Archivio di Anna… e ok. Però poi ieri ho aperto il sito […]
Materiale bucherellato dal cratere Tooting
Il cratere Tooting è uno dei crateri più giovani di Marte. Le aree relativamente basse all'interno e all'esterno del cratere sono coperte da un caratteristico materiale a buche e laghetti.
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Materiale bucherellato dal cratere Tooting
Il cratere Tooting è uno dei crateri più giovani di Marte con un diametro superiore ai 20 chilometri.umberto gaetani (La macchina del tempo)
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#IPFire Hardened #Linux Firewall Distro Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol 9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-fir…
IPFire Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol - 9to5Linux
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with support for the WireGuard VPN protocol.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
gigarivista scottiaca con segretissimo numero, trovato così nel vedere colì
A distanza di 2 anni (…io pensavo 1), chi si ricorda Scottecs Gigazine? Probabilmente nessuno, neppure io onestamente. Però, l’altro giorno mi è tornato in mente che esiste, giusto per caricare su TomoStash una manciata di volumi molto vecchi che ho trovato sull’agrodolce Archivio di Anna… e ok. Però poi ieri ho aperto il sito ufficiale della rivista gigante, per includere i link e per copincollare le descrizioni dei tomi
, e lì ho scoperto non una, ma ben due (2) cose assurde… furbuffe, quasi. (!) 😱
Innanzitutto, esiste un numero speciale del Gigazine, il Numero Zero XL, che è esclusivamente digitale e gratuito!!! Non l’ho mai sentito prima, e in effetti è bello nascosto sul sito, tutto in fondo alla lista dei prodotti… sarà un regalo per i ficcanaso, e io approvo. La cosa strana però è che non si vede alcun tasto per scaricare, o che… l’unica cosa che a fatica trovo è il tasto “aggiungi al carrello secondario”, scrollando in fondo alla pagina, dove appare come flyout, ma… clicco e non funziona, semplicemente il testo si trasforma in una rotellina che gira all’infinito. Per sicurezza ho provato anche dal browser dei pensionati, che “non si sa mai che su Firefox magari è tutto rotto, specialmente il mio con 31 estensioni“, ma niente. 😓
Grande terrore, quindi. Ho temuto di non poter mettere le mani su questo PDF elusivissimo. Giusto un attimo prima di aprire i devtools del browser, per capire cosa va storto e non posso sistemare (qualcosa nel loro tema di Shopify, il JavaScript tira un errore Uncaught TypeError: this.form is null: initCartBar@theme.js [...]
), però, per nessun motivo particolare se non il fatto che ci fosse un pallino “1” nell’angolo, il bottone della chat ha catturato la mia attenzione, e l’ho cliccato… e lì ho riso. Perché tra le tante “risposte immediate” c’è “Non riesco a scaricare il Numero 0 XL“, che ho quindi cliccato, e il bot ha risposto “Gigaciao! Non ti preoccupare, utilizza il link qui sotto e scarica il Numero 0 XL! https://gigaciao.com/a/downloads/-/92f4529bab5bf4e…“. 🤯
Cioè… fatemi capire bene… Loro sanno perfettamente che il loro sito è rotto e il download non può partire, e non solo non sistemano semplicemente lo spacc nel codice, ma nemmeno mettono il link diretto al download nel testo della pagina… No, bisogna che l’utente abbia l’intuizione di scavare in altre parti del sito, in questo caso la chat di supporto, per trovare lì finalmente l’oggetto digitale tanto agognato! Regà, boh, è così assurdo che a questo punto non posso non pensare non sia stato fatto apposta; va bene i problemi, va bene l’incompetenza, ma qui siamo oltre: mi sa che è davvero una caccia al tesoro per chi ha abbastanza pazienza come me. Vabbè, tanto ora il numero 0 è ricaricato sul mio sito… e comunque ci ho perso solo 2-3 minuti, ma in cambio ho subito questa user experience assurda da raccontare. 👌
Scottecs Gigazine 0 XL - Prodotto Digitale
Ecco a voi la versione DIGITALE del ricercatissimo Numero Zero, adesso disponibile in versione XL, con più contenuti ma sempre GRATIS!Se non siete riusciti a recuperarlo in versione cartacea, o se ci siete riusciti, ma volete leggerne una versione es…Gigaciao
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Il segreto millenario per muscoli forti e flessibili: la scienza lo conferma
Antica di 3000 anni, la pratica dello yoga ha un potere silenzioso: rigenera i muscoli, calma la mente e trasforma il recupero in un vero e proprio rituale.Daniela Giannace (Lega Nerd)
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Sostituti vegetali di carne, latte, formaggi: è boom
Gli italiani sono sempre più interessati ai sostituti vegetali della carne e in generale delle proteine animali. Trend in crescitaAgnese Codignola (Il Fatto Alimentare)
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Manifestación en Madrid: "20 meses de genocidio"
Nueva manifestación que ha convocado en Madrid a miles de personas«El 20 de junio, a las 20 horas, 20 meses de GENOCIDIO» eran la cita y el significado que BDS y RESCOP daban a una nueva manifestación que ha convocado en Madrid a miles de personas en@carabanchelnet (Carabanchel net @carabanchelnet)
Church Gate
Little church near Cumdivock, Cumbria
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#lakedistrict #church #gateway #landscapephotography #countryside #photography #photographer #trees #tamron #monochrome #stonewall #blackandwhitephotography
Bonan matenon! Mi estas entuziasma por dividi ĉi tiun artikolon de la NYT, kiu diskutas kiel kaftrinkado eble kontribuas al sana maljuniĝo ĉe virinoj, laŭ studo de Sara Mahdavi, Doktoro en Medicino. Kiel persono kiu amas sian kafon, ĉi tiu novaĵo estas ĉarma maniero komenci la tagon! Ni ĝuu nian kafon kun ĉi tiu pozitiva penso.
Rigardu ĉi tie: nytimes.com/2025/06/02/well/ea…
#KafaAmantoj #SanaMaljuniĝo #BonanMatenon #MatenaKaftrinkado #VirinaSano #Kafo #SanaVivo #Bonfarto
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— kaj mi ŝatas kafon, do mi estas tre partia por kafo.💚 ☕
Bedaŭrinde, la studo ne estas publikigita ankoraŭ; ĝi estis prezentita ĉe la jara kunveno de la American Society for Nutrition en Orlando, Florido, fare de Sara Mahdavi, kiu estas adjunkta profesorino kaj regule publikigas en malferma aliro, kaj mi esperas, ke ĝi estos publikigita ĉi tie: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=…
Formare al futuro, partendo dallo Spazio
edu.inaf.it/approfondimenti/in…
Sogni un futuro in campo spaziale? Per l’apertura del nuovo ciclo del Dottorato Nazionale in Space Science and Technology (SST PhD), intervistiamo il Coordinatore nazionale Roberto Battiston in occasione dei Dottorato Days di Palermo.
#altaFormazione #dottorato #dottoratoSst #OsservatorioAstronomicoDiPalermo #UniversitàDiPalermo #UniversitàDiTrento
Formare al futuro dallo spazio
Intervistiamo Roberto Battiston, coordinatore del nuovo Dottorato Nazionale in Space Science and Technology (SST PhD).Livia Giacomini (EduINAF)
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Serena R. Haskins (active 19th c. - ), American
Graphite on off-white wove paper
19th century
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#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
Los trabajadores del metal de Cádiz no olvidan quien se reune con la Guardia Civil de Cádiz y expulsaron de la manifestación del metal de esta mañana a los fascistas del Frente Obrero.
Sacamos nuestra caja de resistencia que se utilizará solamente para la asistenta jurídica de los detenidos de #HuelgaDelMetalCadiz y el pago de las multas que vendrán.
Los sindicatos sistémicos se desentienden como la última huelga de la gente que da la cara en las barricadas
HUELGA INDEFINIDA
METAL CÁDIZ
CAJA DE RESISTENCIA
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Concepto: HUELGA DEL METAL
Storage — Upgrade RHEL / CentOS / Oracle Linux 6 to 7 to 8 to 9
Manage storage and upgrade file systems through Ext3 to Ext4 to XFS (and Btrfs) and managing logical volumes as you migrate through RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 6 to 7 to 8 to 9.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Il Sahel è la regione maggiormente colpita dal terrorismo nel 2024.
Nel 2024, la regione del Sahel in Africa ha registrato il 51% delle morti globali legate al terrorismo, un aumento rispetto al 48% del 2023, secondo il Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025, pubblicato dall’Institute for Economics and Peace con sede a Sydney. Il rapporto evidenzia che il Sahel ha rappresentato anche il 19% di tutti gli attacchi terroristici mondiali nel 2024.
Il Burkina Faso detiene il triste titolo di paese più colpito della regione, con oltre 700 morti collegati a gruppi come Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen; ciò nonostante i proclami di riconquista da parte del governo di Ibrahim Traoré ed i selfie dei suoi soldati sui social network, fatti in territori liberati e subito dopo ripersi, spesso con gli interessi. La situazione in Niger è altrettanto drammatica, con più di 400 vittime perdute nell’anno scorso. La maggior parte dei caduti si hanno in villaggi, avamposti militari e raduni pubblici.
In Nigeria, un attacco avvenuto nel villaggio di Mafa, nello stato di Yobe, ha causato la morte di tra i 100 e i 150 individui, oltre a numerosi feriti. Un altro attacco significativo è stato quello dell’Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) contro i membri di Boko Haram nelle aree nordorientali del Lago Ciad, nello stato di Borno, avvenuto il 24 aprile dell’anno scorso, che ha comportato la morte di settanta membri di Boko Haram e dieci dell’ISWAP. Secondo alcuni, uno scontro fratricida…
L’attività terroristica ha colpito anche il Mali, dove un attacco audace a una scuola della Gendarmerie nella parte meridionale della capitale, Bamako, ha provocato la morte di 60 soldati. Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen ha rivendicato la responsabilità per questo attacco.
Secondo le Nazioni Unite, gli attacchi terroristici sono continuati senza sosta anche nel 2025, con un incremento ulteriore del numero delle vittime. La situazione nel Sahel rimane preoccupante, evidenziando la necessità di interventi urgenti e strategie a lungo termine per affrontare questa crisi in corso.
Fonte: africanews.com
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It's not the first time I see your discovery shared and I want to thank you. It won't completely disencourage people around me from using it but it'd pile up with other many reasons to do so. Someday there would be just enough of them, like it happened with VK, Facebook etc, I believe.
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in reply to altkey (he\him) • • •What have I done.
I do information security work, and I used to work closely with investigative journalists hailing from Russia, Kazachstan, Ukraine, and other places in that general area. Telegram is massively popular there. Because of this Telegram has been on my radar for a very long time as a serious security threat – not just because its protocol and management are suspect, there are plenty of other IMs like that, but also because of how many people I worked with had used it.
I've written about Telegram before, on amore general level (linked in the blog post), so when IStories reached out to me for comment on this it was a good inspiration to dive deeper.
I would not use it. I refuse to accept that abandoning it is not an option. There are plenty of options. It's always a decision one can make.
Please remember that even if hypothetically you could use it in a way that protects you from the spying – something I am very, very doubtful of! – the mere fact you are using it sucks other people into using it. You personally become one more reason for someone to start using or keep using Telegram. You personally become one more "user" of Telegram, justifying another media organization or NGO to set up or maintain a presence there – which in turn pulls in even more users into the dragnet.
In other words, your decision to use Telegram anyway, even though you know what the issues are, becomes one of the many things that make other people feel that "abandoning is not an option". I refuse to be a part of that. The only thing I can recommend is to stop using it.
I think this hits the nail on the head: If the FSB conection is that deep, there is no end to what they’d want to mine from users.
I don't want to speculate. The possibilities are vast. But I will say what I said in the blogpost: Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot.
I don't trust Telegram the company, I don't trust Telegram the software, I don't trust MTProto. I certainly do not trust Pavel Durov. I don't think we need to speculate on what more could possibly be hiding there, what is already known about Telegram should really be enough to stop using it.
thatonecoder
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in reply to Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 • • •The entire article seems like an attack. The author finds a unique identifier and adds "Russia bad" throughout.
States the information is in cleartext but then explains how everything is encrypted (in transit).
What will the author do if they intercepted any single online stores transfer of credit card details. Also encrypted in transit but Is that also deemed as cleartext? Or is that okay?
I don't think much new is learnt here. WhatsApp also sends metadata in "cleartext" (not really, as it's encrypted in transit, but this article called that "cleartext").
T (they/she)
in reply to lazynooblet • • •I don't know... I think the author put a lot of effort on document things and presenting evidence.
Your post history and mod logs are also quite weird.
lazynooblet
in reply to T (they/she) • • •Lol what does that mean
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in reply to ses hat • • •fr it's literally
But I can't lie the analysis is still quite in-depth and feels like an effortpost
dewittlebook
in reply to ses hat • • •I can't say I read the whole thing because the technical analysis went over my head, but I don't think we read the same conclusion
Based on the analysis of packet captures above, I believe it is clear that anyone who has sufficient visibility into Telegram’s traffic would be able to identify and track traffic of specific user devices. Including when perfect forward secrecy protocol feature is in use.
This would also allow, through some additional analysis based on timing and packet sizes, to potentially identify who is communicating with whom using Telegram.
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Songs on the Security of Networksrysiek
in reply to ses hat • • •Hi, author here. First of all, in that piece I don't happen to recommend using any specific piece of software. I mention Signal and WhatsApp for comparison, as tools that are considered similar, and yet avoid making the same weird protocol choices.
Secondly, if you have any proof that any specific communication tool is used to "spy" on people, I am sure I am not the only person who would love to hear about it. That's the only way we can keep each other safe online. Surely you wouldn't be making unsubstantiated claims and just imply stuff like that without any proof, would you?
And finally, I've spent a good chunk of time and expertise on analyzing Telegram's protocol before I made my claims. I provided receipts. I provided code. I explained in detail my testing set-up. You can yourself go and verify my results.
Instead, you claim it's "propaganda", while mischaracterizing what I say in that post. Classy!
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