The day before protests flared in Hong Kong, 10 police officers showed up at Ivan Ip’s house. They forced him to open his phone, and took data on a 20,000 person chat group organizing protests. How China polices the internet is becoming how Hong Kong does.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/world/asia/hong-kong-telegram-protests.html …
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Replying to @paulmozur
Sorry for the dumb tech question (I'm old) , but if Telegram is a secure encrypted app, how did the police find and arrest (?) the group admin?
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Telegram group chat is not end-to-end encrypted.
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Replying to @BradRubenstein @CatatonicPrime and
Absolutely true. I just get angry at Telegram passing itself off as an encrypted app on top of everything else.
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