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Cake day: November 8th, 2023
  • LWD@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
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    9 days ago

    The entire set is then encrypted again in transit.

    Citation? The author of the article provides theirs, and a cursory glance at the chart that telegram themselves provides reveals that the authentication key is not encrypted at all.

    Here’s the part of the article you may have missed that clarifies why that’s actually a huge issue:

    This enables anyone who has sufficient network visibility and a bit of dedication to identify traffic originating from a given user device.

    IStories found evidence that all network communication to and from Telegram’s infrastructure go through a company linked to the Russian FSB. This would provide the kind of network visibility that combined with auth_key_id would allow it to identify traffic coming from specific users, globally.

    Why exactly did Telegram create a proprietary messaging protocol that uses this “surprising and unnecessary protocol design choice, present neither in Signal nor WhatsApp”?

    Maybe it was just a huge coincidence, compounded by other huge coincidences. You tell me. You have the opportunity to blow this article wide open.

  • LWD@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
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    10 days ago

    The fact is that the FSB is only a threat to those with Russian citizenship or who live within the Russian Federation

    Two things:

    1. Your focus on FSB this, FSB that is based on your refusal to read past the title
    2. Maybe you missed it, but Russia is engaged in a war of aggression against Ukraine (a country where people use Telegram). Not only is this a good reason for Ukrainians to not use it, but the post makes a compelling case that nobody should (see: network effect).

    There are reasons for Westerners not to use Telegram.

    And if you read the blog, you’d have seen them.

    It’s hard not to be condescending when you proudly wallow in self-induced ignorance.

    Telegram’s dangers extend not just as far as Russia’s sphere of influence, but also the spheres of influence of every country that has secretly been collecting data with their express assistance. We discovered recently that Pavel Durov was hiding this fact for a long while…

  • LWD@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•ORB ALERT, reddit
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    12 days ago

    It cannot be understated how absolutely deranged the orb has been from the beginning. Sam Altman is creating the problem (AI botspam) and promising he has the solution (this ungodly trash) at the same time.

    Scam altman even sent a crew to Kenya to try coloniz… Uh, debankin… Oh, scanning eyeballs in exchange for a few piddly dollars. In response, Kenya booted his project out.

    So he turned his sights to a country he apparently can exploit: the USA.

  • LWD@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•DeepSeek Review: A Middling Chatbot With Profound Privacy Issues
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    13 days ago

    I don’t trust the Trump administration’s agenda, and I certainly don’t trust a website you posted that encourages you to get 5G blockers to protect you from the “globalists.”

    You don’t even need to double down on that site, which appears to be run by Mike Adams, an Alex Jones buddy who out-grifts Jones with snake oil sales. You could just admit you accept any source that says China is bad, tegardless of quality, and apologize and delete it.

    (If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were a tankie yourself… doing your best strawman of what tankies complain about. Between the far right conspiracy sites, the bad sources, and the straight-up US government stuff…)

  • LWD@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•DeepSeek Review: A Middling Chatbot With Profound Privacy Issues
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    13 days ago

    OP is notorious for not giving a shit about privacy (and has posted conspiracy site spam before), and this article continues the trend. PCMag gives DeepSeek a 2/5 rating but Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT get 4/5 with no heading criticizing privacy.

    It gets worse: PCMag cites a Trump administration special committee report as evidence Deepseek isn’t private. I could go on for a while about how both Google and OpenAI get special treatment from the US, but hopefully it’s clear that they (like OP) only see danger stemming from the geographical location of the servers and not their actual harm.

    PCMag describes DeepSeek data collection as “fairly standard for chatbot data collection,” but then claims “other serious privacy concerns” before linking that report.

    Meanwhile “OpenAI collects a significant amount of data,” it “was not forthcoming” with data breaches, and the author doesn’t “recommend sharing anything too sensitive with ChatGPT.”

    Strange DeepSeek gets the “not secure” label and ChatGPT does not.