Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users
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The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.

as if you needed more reasons to switch to Signal

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
    34·
    4 days ago

    Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.

    We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
    17·
    4 days ago

    I’m a fan of self-hosted Matrix server. You can get a dozen of bridges for those stubborn people that refuse to leave messenger/whatsapp/telegram (at a loss of encryption, and they still get your convos, but at least you don’t have their spyware on your mobile and you can have everything in one app), while also being decentralized.

    Self-hosting a server is actually really, really easy. It took me like half an hour, because there is an amazing Matrix Ansible Deploy script, that has a pretty easy to follow documentation, and is also one of those super-rare projects that just works. Even if I forgot to update my server for several months, I could literally “just update”, and the script is clever enough to figure out what changed, tell me what I need to update in the config files (which are still only like four rows of stuff I needed to setup), and it is a really smooth experience. Even when you want to set up some bridges, for most it’s literally just adding “<service>_bridge_enabled: true” to the ansible yml config file. I’ve already set up Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord and Messenger this way, and it was effortless.

      • haverholm@kbin.earth
        3·
        3 days ago

        I’ve used matrix for the better part of a decade, and I get that reference.

        That said, while the matrix crew have worked hard on the decryption issues, I’d much rather feel that particular pain on a federated network where I can change servers than be stuck with Signal if/when the single server’s policies turn evil.

        • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          What do you do when you get that message.

          Ive lost contact with friends because of that message. They just can’t read anything I send them anymore.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Here we go again. Once more, folks don’t fucking listen when they’re warned. And the ones who should have listened just got branched again.