Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image 404 Media reports that a bunch of cybercriminals are ditching Telegram in the wake of CEO Pavel Durov's arrest: https://www.404media.co/in-wake-of-durov-arrest-some-cybercriminals-ditch-telegram/ I've seen the same! The crew behind a one-time password stealing operation called Estate (I profiled earlier this year: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/cyber-criminals-stealing-one-time-passcodes-sim-swap-raiding-bank-accounts/) wiped its channel and ditched Telegram, citing the messaging app's recent moderation changes that allows anyone to report private groups. "Telegram can't be trusted anymore," wrote the OTP bot crime crew.

Ignoring the context.

Don’t pirate over Telegram, it’s no longer safe in terms of privacy and legal safety.

  • sebschEnglish
    42·
    vor 2 Monaten

    Xmpp is not encrypted. So sorry but without that, your sentence makes no sense at all.

    • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
      42·
      vor 2 Monaten

      Have you seen an XMPP setup these days that doesn’t have installed all the extra stuff to allow encryption, voice and a lot of other bells and whistles?

      • sebschEnglish
        1·
        vor 2 Monaten

        I mean you can (client side). But the protocol is agnostic of any encryption.