Telegram Hands Over User Data to German Police

Great information!

There is an obvious back door everyone misses with telegram. The phone number. If 2FA is not set up, they just need the ability to intercept an SMS to get full access to the cloud data. No interaction with telegram required. No weaknesses in encryption required.

Oh snap, wutchu know about Kevin Gates?! Lol 😉👍🏻✌🏼

Telegram fuckbois gonna cry.

why not change the source so it /doesn’t/ need a phone

wait if its open source why not change it to work like session

Just don't use an encrypted app with forum functionality. It WILL be used for CP and such so you can expect it to be subpoenaed or shut down.

I told you guys the gestappo still existed

Germany is a shthle anyway... the so called democracy and democrat countries will work together to hunt down their enemies...of course its good in case of murder or child abuse...
BUT if you are to far right or to far left or stand by russia you get targeted also.. so yeah.. thats freedom i guess...

wickr is partially cia funded i believe

Am I the only person who strongly disagrees with telegrams ability to generate 1B downloads? Seems suss AF to me. That puts it at about 1 in 5 people who have the internet have telegram.....
YEEEEEAHHHH, RIIIGHT.
I suppose you're telling me more people care about private communication than they do about having reasonable nutrition?
KYS

If it doesn't collect personal data then why does it need my phone number, if I pay for their version of discord' nitro where do my payment details go?

They def collect data, you can't say they don't.

Thanks to this video, I just downloaded Signal and renamed the installed to include: "the Chad of messaging apps". Mind you, I don't need it atm, but for when I will need a decent messaging programme, it will be there at the ready.

more likely it was in june, not march

Netherlands is Holland??
And also why tf the flag is upside down??

If they give out the phone number, couldn’t the feds look up where and who registered it ?

I'm honestly curious what the deciding factor is for them to give up information.

We had someone local to me abusing telegram to spread child, content, and would delete an account only to make another and continue. This went on for FIVE YEARS and telegram seemed unable or unwilling to do anything about it. He was eventually caught by the FBI in an /unrelated/ matter and literally their response was "OH, IT'S THIS GUY!" since even they didn't realize who it was until informed.

The guy's gone now. Didn't even get booked into county... went straight to federal(literally hundreds of charges)... but it took way too fucking long to nail the guy to the wall.

Germans are really weird to me.
It's almost like they have no idea what happened in their own country in the 20th century.