Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.
Telegram has heavily participated in misinformation campaigns targeting actual private messaging apps with always enabled, properly implemented end-to-end encryption such as Signal. Should stop getting any advice from anyone who told you to use Telegram as a private messenger.
Telegram is capable of handing over all messages in every group and regular one-to-one chat to authorities in France or any other country. A real private messaging app like Signal isn't capable of turning over your messages and media. Telegram/Discord aren't private platforms.
A major example of how Telegram's opt-in secret chat encryption has gone seriously wrong before: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/.
The practical near term threat is for the vast majority of chats without end-to-end encryption: 100% of Telegram group chats and the regular 1-to-1 chats.
Use telegram as a public internet forum with groups (=channels) and that's it. Do not use it for anything private.
Anyone use IVPN? They were thinking about joining Nostr. https://www.ivpn.net
I have a free 3 month voucher that they gave me, but I'd rather give it away to my Nostriches.
Post your best meme and I'll pick a winner after I get get home later this evening. 
Great service, accepts payment in lightning.
Because IP address can still leak. Each time you connect to the internet, your ip is blasted all over the place. You can not be sure that your vpn app handles reconnects etc safely. Safest is to use a mobile router with always on VPN that blocks internet when VPN doesn't connect. Might be overkill but if you are an activist (I'm not) you would need to be super cautious.
Privacy in Spain is not a thing. I recently stayed in a Hotel in Spain and they want to scan your ID (illegal) to send the details to the police (it's a law). But nobody cares. Tourist happily hand over their IDs and wait 2 hrs to get it back. So better don't use Hotel WiFi's, even if you connect via a VPN. Better use WiFi's at a restaurant or bar, waiters usually tell you the password, most of the time it's 12345678 or the name of the bar 😉 .
YT has become unusable anyway. Have to watch 5 min ads now, can't skip. Happy to follow you on other platforms. Know it sucks because of ad revenue though ...
Hope you have a good media lawyer.
Yeah, with VPN and ublock, it was a smooth experience. Now totally sucks.
YT has become completely unusable. Need to watch a 5 min ad now before the actual content starts, can't skip. Thank god invidious exists. Question is for how long it will work until YT closes all workarounds ...
Dieser Post enthält einen Link zu unserer aktuellen Folge (E196 Buchclub: Gossip und der Kanal-Graph) und soll in den Kommentaren zur Folge bei nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 erscheinen.
Let’s do this.
👍
Firefox with multi-account-containers for sites where you have a session (cookies, logins) and extensions.
Everything else: Mullvad-browser.
It will be a used Pixel 6a to try it out. Right now I still use an iphone 8 and a Samsung Android without SIM for wallets and where my identity is not needed, a "semi-private" normie phone how I call it.
Two phones: GrapheneOs with non-KYC esim and a normie one.
Reason's why you should come to Venezuela
Beautiful landscapes and places
https://v.nostr.build/EXDVcYeFo6jQiEzQ.mp4
#photostr #photography #artstr #plebs #plebchain #grownostr
Me: Tits or ass?
Cameraman:
Disgusting. Unfollow and mute.
That's why you use Tor only on snapshotted vm and revert when you're done browsing so that everything that might have been stored like cookies is gone next time you boot the vm. Or just use tails booted to memory from a USB stick.
Who the fuck cares anyways. I use it to pay my VPN or VPS hosting service if there is no LN option. Use the tools wisely. Good news is more an more sites offer LN payment options but requires more work to make the payment anonymous (own node, funded with no-KYC BTC etc.)
Spain is a privacy disaster when checking into a hotel. Had to give them my passport for making a copy. Refused and said please jot down the details but I will not allow you to keep it for taking a copy as it is illegal. They said call police but you won't be allowed to stay here. Looks like they need to send the details to the police over night. What a 1984 shit.