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   📡(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips (rtp@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:29:46 JST 📡(RTP) Privacy & Tech Tips

   BREAKING: Founder Of Telegram ARRESTED For Not "Moderating" - aka not enacting censorship

   Further war on free speech / encryption - I'll probably talk about it on a video coming up

   #censorship #telegram #PavelDurov #crypto #encryption #e2ee #socialMedia #backdoor #France #Paris #News #tech #freedom #freespeech #arstechnica

   https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

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     Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 06:29:46 JST Gabe

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     @RTP@fosstodon.org
     People are rushing in to nit-pick that telegram isn't a secure messager (it isn't) and that it's filled with spam/junk (it is) but there's an important truth to what you're saying.
     
     E2EE isn't an end to itself, it's a means to privacy outside third-party control. The EU (and many other governments) have made it explicitly clear they view any and all communications they can't monitor control or shut down are a problem.
     
     You don't have to like Telegram or durov to see this as a troubling sign within a broader pattern that is only hard to see when ones wishes not to see.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: like this.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 07:18:34 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Gabe
     • Pawlicker
     @gabriel @RTP @PurpCat I think this isn't really because of Silicon Valley, it's because of two things: firstly, the relegation of Wikileaks and by extension Snowden and "privacy advocates" to "right wing useful idiots"; and the realization that the government is too powerful and trying to get it to stop spying on us illegally has proven literally impossible.
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     Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 07:18:35 JST Gabe

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     • Pawlicker

     @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
     Interesting read (part way through it)
     This is a scathing and intriguing take: Now, four years after the Snowden leak, we can see that all that energy and outrage and potential for civic action has been redirected into a narrow band of mass-politics-by-app. The new consensus, bruited loudly in and around Silicon Valley, holds that all we need to do to protect ourselves from surveillance is download whatever crypto chat app is in vogue at the moment, and run it on our iPhones. Instead of finding political and democratic solutions to the government and corporate surveillance crisis plaguing our society, the privacy movement somehow ended up in a libertarian rut. This is a non-trivial problem. I would actually agree with the kernel of truth that technological solutions are absolutely part of the picture. But, I also wholeheartedly agree the idea that only technological solutions are required is undoubtedly it's own psyop at this point.
     
     @RTP@fosstodon.org

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} like this.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 07:18:36 JST Pawlicker

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     • Gabe
     @gabriel @RTP It's both due to the unrest in the UK (which was being spread over TG) where certain demographics got a bit too uppity, and the fact that glowies kept failing to get Durov. He really, should have stayed in Dubai.
     
     https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine