Many don't seem to understand why I object to @Telegram having unsafe, censorable public channels in an app that is promoted as a secure messenger. Some presumed I just don't understand how channels work. So let's talk about it:
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We've seen some improvements, and that's not nothing. But not the revolutionary rework it needs. Telegram still seems to encourage dangerous cloud messaging instead of secret chats. Experts ask "why?" And the answer is "convenience." That's unsafe.
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Governments learn slowly, but they do learn. There comes a day when it will be too late to fix these problems, and I fear it is sooner than we think.
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Hey Edward, I'm curious if you have taken a look at https://www.scuttlebutt.nz It's been working off-grid for a few years, there's plenty of daily users, and we're constantly building it to the next level. Fully open source, company-less, decentralized.
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@Snowden@andrestaltz + end-to-end encryption without recipient metadata (this is the biggest privacy feature of scuttlebutt imo)
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Edward, the channels are decentrilized. What exactly you mean by "decentralized" term? The platform wich doesn't have rules at all? No possibility to manage itself? It's total mess and the way to completely lost all of the audience because of hateful, violent and scam content.
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That's called freedom.
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It's not the freedom. It's anarchy. Don't сonfuse them.
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Trust nothing
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did your employer trust you,trust your word?trust that you wouldn’t hand over information? Haha just saying
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TTP- Trusted Third Parties...The most underestimated threat to our economic freedom.

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What's a good decentralized and secure messenger in your opion, ideally one with channel/group support?
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@matrixdotorg looks like a great challenger imho.
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the speed with which certain Telegram channels here in Iran are blocked shows how deep the reach of the government really is.
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Xmpp have done this in years now
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this shows the lack of standardization, interoperability and public service mentality in the messenging world... sms might be unencrypted but at least they don't create lock-in situations where you can control and punish people en masse
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Yes you can... the NSA has programs specifically designed for that
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actually, you're right, I forgot sms can be shut down quite easily because it's not over IP... I was thinking about the equivalent of a standard like sms, but over IP... censoring it would prove more difficult without blocking internet access in itself - which can always be done
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