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CEO of Telegram messaging app arrested in France, say French media (www.voanews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People just think that providing their phone numbers makes them less private when privacy does not mean anonymity.

Yeah, people just think that providing their phone numbers makes local police able to easily find them and insert soldering iron into their rectum when privacy does not mean that that police will not easily find you for what you said on the internets. Wait, what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Okay, I'll bite. But considering Signal has no data and very little metadata to give people, what exactly is the problem? What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Especially now that people don't have to share phone numbers to add a contact and can stop others from finding them via numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with "discreditation of army".

Especially now that people don't have to share phone numbers to add a contact

Phone number that tied to your passport. Yep, not sharing phone number to add a contact will magically help here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's fair, one reason I stay out of big groups, though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone, so I'm not fully grasping your argument.

What do you mean by passport? It will a bit, if someone doesn't know the phone number of an account that sent a message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone,

Is it something new? I don't remember it being a thing.

What do you mean by passport?

In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card. So phone number is tied to person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fairly new, yeah.

Oh, right, yeah, that's bad.