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📱 Telegram could give away your IP address

Recently, Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, made some statements on his telegram channel as usual, but something stood out that caught people's attention:

We have made it clear that IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules may be disclosed to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.

In reference to Telegram's own terms and conditions.

He also points out:

Telegram Search is meant for finding friends and discovering news, not promoting illegal products. We won't let bad actors compromise the integrity of our platform

Many now argue that Telegram has therefore changed after the arrest of Pavel Durov.

The reality is that ANY COMPANY, and I repeat, any company you use will have to obey the rule of law.

And in the event of any legal request, your IP address and/or telephone number will be provided if applicable.

Although you can protect yourself with a good VPN /TOR and/or a temporary phone number.

Kazani 1y ago

There's been a lot of news related to anonymity this month.

The guys from the special services of different countries apparently came back from vacation and began to massively silence all those who were undesirable.

News about timing attacks on TOR, mass searches of exit node owners, official announcement that Telegram has started to give out data about its users and many other interesting news.

Well, anonymity is becoming more and more luxurious every year.

Yesterday you could write all sorts of, let's say, objectionable things from a TG account and remain anonymous.

Today you can install VirtualBox with Whonix and think that you have protected yourself very well, although in fact, under VirtualBox every second person has an exploit, and TOR users are not so difficult to deanonymize.

And tomorrow you will see in the news about hardware backdoors that send data somewhere and reflashing the device will not help you (Spoiler - this is already possible and even quite possibly actively works, just few people talk about it. Hello Intel ME and AMD PSP).

Anonymity is a luxury. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you or doesn't understand the subject.

To achieve a high level of anonymity on the network, you will need very good knowledge of information security, and very specific knowledge, which is usually not taught in educational institutions. You need to build a whole set of measures to counter attacks on your privacy, security and anonymity on the network.

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