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|    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)    |
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