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   Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd: (redstarfish@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 15:53:44 JST Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd:

   A conversation between me and my friend on Telegram:

   Me: Hey, install Quicksy. I don't want to chat on Telegram, it's not E2EE.

   Friend: No. I'm not going to install your weird apps.

   Me: But, it's free software (স্বাধীন সফ্টওয়ার) and really good, supports E2EE!

   Friend: No. I have nothing to fear. I don't care if someone reads my chats.

   This went on for some minutes, I couldn't persuade him to install Quicksy. So I gave up.

   After a week, when he was about to say something political on a Telegram voice call (this was E2EE)

   Friend: I don't want to say it over phone, you know.

   Me: Well, this call is E2EE, say whatever you want. Only you and me can hear it.

   Then, he said it.

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     Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd: (redstarfish@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 17:36:22 JST Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd:

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     • karthik | కార్తీక్

     @kskarthik

     Telegram has become very shitty. You can't even pin more than 5 chats without a premium.

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     karthik | కార్తీక్ (kskarthik@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 17:36:32 JST karthik | కార్తీక్

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     @redstarfish I recommended telegram for my family circle in 2014, but now I am asking them to uninstall. They are puzzled. I explained that its software & its prone to changes, just like people's behavior
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 00:54:27 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     amazing that he'd trust E2EE on a fully compromised device... I'm not saying the device would break E2EE (though it might), I'm saying that whoever remotely controls the tracking device can get to the plaintext before encryption
     翠星石, Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd: and guilherme :gnu: like this.
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     Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd: (redstarfish@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 12:58:42 JST Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd:

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo

     Makes sense.