Analysis of thousands of channels reveals Telegram is flooded with criminal networks

[Vanderlinde]

Money and favors carry weight too. We never know what transpires behind closed doors. I believe the internet was never meant to be private.

First introduction of GSM (like the first cellphone) was nearly blocked unless it lowered it's encryption from standard 64 bits to 40 or 48 bits - french goverment and intelligence services wanted it like that or else the product would not be released into the public.

Designers had to lower the encryption, a story that has been untold for at least 20 years and quite recently popped out.

 

[bclaymiles]

So, how is it then that American platforms do not have it?
Actually, I recall FB had a vast network of illegal porn trade.
I have not heard what they did to end it.

I presume, they simply run automated tools, reading every message every user sends
for specific terms. Then they report it to authorities.

If you do not think this is what they do, give your own guess.

It's false that 'American platforms do not have it' (presuming you mean usage for illegal purposes).

Whatsapp, Signal, Discord have been reported to be used for illegal and 'illegal adjacent' activities. As for other platforms, they almost certain carry some illegal content as well.

There will always be a tension between privacy and transparency. What matters is who is listening, and why.

 

[opckieran]

BLM, antifa, black supremacist groups, anti-hetero groups, child grooming rings, the list goes on.

Of course, those dont go against The Message (tm) so they will be left alone. This reeks of a targeted attack on Telegram from allowing privacy in a surveillance hungry world.

Honestly, a lot of those don't need to go to Telegram in the first place, when the legacy media consistently lauds them as "mostly peaceful" or appraises them in some other wildly optimistic way.

And despite all those things listed (and half of them are not criminal anyways, lets not normalize this) being found on every social media platform, only Telegram is being targeted. Curious.... Almost like the feds are angry telegram wont hand data over to them, so now we hear about these Horrible Criminals in Plain Sight (tm). Hmmm....

Governments are getting more and more entitled... the things they'll demand from us all while calling it "protecting democracy". Give me a break!

 

[Nobina]

victims care

There will never be enough victims to justify surveillance.