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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:02:35 JST Kevin Beaumont

   The Telegram CEO has been arrested. They have hardly any staff so interested to see how this plays out. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/

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     Reeter (reeter@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 18:47:01 JST Reeter

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     @NullTheFool @smeg @GossiTheDog
     I'm not even sure what that does mean to "moderate" a private-secured messaging service.

     Are we really expecting every data exchange mechanism to be spyable?

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     smeg (smeg@assortedflotsam.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 18:47:03 JST smeg

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     @GossiTheDog literally everything I see in every channel is scams. If you told me there was CP channels, I would believe it

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     NullDott (Raylib Arc) :raylib: (nullthefool@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 18:47:03 JST NullDott (Raylib Arc) :raylib:

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     @smeg @GossiTheDog OH THERE WAS WORSE THAN THAT

     I never stop hearing about Telegram groups exchanging illegal and disgusting content since I knew about the app in 2021.

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 00:35:34 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     I’ve been told the Telegram CEO arrest includes concerns about ransomware groups using the service to distribute stolen victim data - Telegram hadn’t been acting on reports (they did eventually remove Qilin).

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 02:21:22 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     Re Telegram - two main issues are apparently at play. One is child porn, the other is concerns about ransomware/extortion groups. The big concern is rightly about the first one.

     With the later, groups targeting France (and the UK) have been dumping victim data on Telegram groups, with Telegram directly hosting the data and then failing to remove it.

     Telegram is not an encrypted platform - the groups are plain text.

     Telegram has <50 staff and 1 billion monthly active users.

     Bill repeated this.
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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 02:34:21 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     With regards to Elon’s claim today that a majority of Mastodon content is child porn - this isn’t true.

     Some Fediverse servers are unsavoury - as an instance admin, you can chose to defederate them or not cache media content. You would only encounter this if a user interacted with it.

     After approaching two years of being a Mastodon admin to a server with tens of thousands of users, I’ve only ever seen one post which was concerning - I removed the server and reported it to relevant authorities.

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     Guelfo Alexander Ghibellini (guelfoalexander@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 03:13:13 JST Guelfo Alexander Ghibellini

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     @GossiTheDog if this is the *real* motivation of his arrest, and there is no other political - to us normal citizen unknown - issue, than it's hilarious, since Telegram has full compliance with EU legislation (see here for info: https://telegram.org/dsa-report works only from EU / https://transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/dashboard) and most important, they are acting as an intermediator. Once he'll be declared responsible, it's the turn of all other CEOs down to Tim Berners-Lee and the pals that invented cryptography. LOL

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 04:01:45 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     Write up about Telegram case https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/business/telegram-founder-arrest-france.html

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 05:58:04 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     Latest on Telegram situation: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c985ppy0znyo