home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.censorship      All matters of censorship in society      12,782 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 12,623 of 12,782   
   D to John McCue   
   Re: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arreste   
   26 Aug 24 18:11:47   
   
   [continued from previous message]   
      
   >is plenty of useful metadata available about who is listening to a   
   >broadcast. That information alone is valuable to people, as evidenced by   
   >the enormous amounts of money that traditional broadcasters spend to   
   >collect it. Right now all of that information likely exists on Telegram's   
   >servers, where it is available to anyone who wants to collect it.   
   >I am not specifically calling out Telegram for this, since the same   
   >problem exists with virtually every other social media network and private   
   >messenger. But it should be mentioned, just to avoid leaving you with the   
   >conclusion that encryption is all we need.   
   >Main photo "privacy screen" by Susan Jane Golding, used under CC license.   
   >Notes:   
   > 1. I will never find all of these conversations again, thanks to Twitter   
   >    search being so broken. If anyone can turn them up I'd appreciate it.   
   >Matthew Green   
   >I'm a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University. I've   
   >designed and analyzed cryptographic systems used in wireless networks,   
   >payment systems and digital content protection platforms. In my research   
   >I look at the various ways cryptography can be used to promote user   
   >privacy.   
   [end quoted plain text]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca