It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done

Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something

The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people’s deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I’m out.

Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.

  • @Gooey0210OP
    -1•4 months ago

    I will probably up this one, it’s really a lot of materials, and articles, and news if you read behind all this war and politics stuff

    You should really search, I tried to compile all I could find, but I’m here to stop using tg, not going back to tg and scroll Russian opposition channels for all the mentions of stuff like that

    There are some articles in English that describe the events, but most of them are in Russian

    Also, from the search it’s really hard to find anything because a lot of stuff about the war

    Here are a few topics:

    1. Telegram leaking location
    2. Telegram leaking IP address
    3. Deleted many years ago chats/messages were recovered remotely (just recently)
    4. Telegram is delaying source code publishing
    5. The source code’s build has a different hash and a few mb smaller than the release
    6. Their data sharing reports are empty although they were openly giving data to authorities in e.g. Germany

    Compilation of different technical vulnerabilities and issues of telegram(in Russian):

    And in general, Russian government unbanned tg after it realized it can read it. I wouldn’t trust anything that was unbanned in Russia or China

    And one more article that lists issues of telegram: https://emisare.medium.com/так-ли-безопасен-telegram-f5a3128a1311

    I’m already tired of doing this, I didn’t even start on activists and how they get hacked and stuff