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π¨ GTST Episode 267: Alzheimer's Cast
Matt gives us a review of the Trump speech about the big beautiful wall, and then Matt and Addison discuss their experience with Parler, and the importance of the bad think. There's a short conversation about Telegram, and some of the best groups and channels for the bad think.
There's more analysis on current events, and some discussion about the Capitol SIEGE.
Addison confronts Matt for shouting at him on the last episode, and we conclude that our show is terrible.
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https://tripodbroadcasting.com/2021/01/14/gtst-episode-267-alzheimers-cast/
π¨URGENT WARNING TO ALL TELEGRAM USERSπ¨
Multiple sources suspect that Apple is planning on deleting the app Telegram from the AppStore entirely AND WILL REMOVE IT FROM YOUR PHONE via remote maintenanceβοΈ
You can take preventative measures to prohibit the automatic deletion of apps:
- Go to βsettingsβ
- Press βscreen timeβ
- Choose βcontent and privacy restrictionsβ
- Activate the button at the top right
- Then go to βiTunes and AppStore purchasesβ
- DO NOT ALLOW your phone to delete apps automaticallyβοΈ
Feel free to PM @mhulme2574 or @addisontodd with your voice messages, links, and comments for this week's episode.
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https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/01/11/Space-Force-joins-US-Intelligence-Community/6501610383303/
π¨ GTST Episode 266: AOC's Gymbag
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I hear Facebook has an entire department devoted to figuring out why Telegram is so popular. Imagine dozens of employees working on just that full-time.
I am happy to save Facebook tens of millions of dollars and give away our secret for free: respect your users.
Millions of people are outraged by the latest change in WhatsApp Terms, which now say users must feed all their private data to Facebookβs ad engine. Itβs no surprise that the flight of users from WhatsApp to Telegram, already ongoing for a few years, has accelerated.
At about 500 million users and growing, Telegram has become a major problem for the Facebook corporation. Unable to compete with Telegram in quality and privacy, Facebookβs WhatsApp seems to have switched to covert marketing: Wikipedia editors have recently exposed multiple paid bots adding biased information into the WhatsApp Wikipedia article [1].
We have also detected bots which spread inaccurate information about Telegram on social media. Here are the 3 myths they are pushing:
Myth 1. βTelegramβs code is not open-sourceβ. In reality, all Telegram client apps have been open source since 2013 [2]. Our encryption and API are fully documented and have been reviewed by security experts thousands of times. Moreover, Telegram is the only messaging app in the world that has verifiable builds both for iOS and Android [3]. As for WhatsApp, they intentionally obfuscate their code, making it impossible to verify their encryption and privacy.
Myth 2. βTelegram is Russianβ. In fact, Telegram has no servers or offices in Russia and was blocked there from 2018 to 2020 [4]. Telegram is still blocked in some authoritarian countries such as Iran, while WhatsApp and other βsupposedly secureβ apps have never had any issue in these places.
Myth 3. βTelegram is not encryptedβ. Every chat on Telegram has been encrypted since launch. We have Secret Chats that are end-to-end and Cloud Chats that also offer real-time secure and distributed cloud storage [5]. WhatsApp, on the other hand, had zero encryption for a few years, and then adopted an encryption protocol funded by the US Government [6]. Even if we assume that the WhatsApp encryption is solid, itβs invalidated via multiple backdoors and reliance on backups [7].
In 2019 alone, Facebook spent almost 10 billion dollars on marketing [8] (I guess this includes paid bots on Wikipedia and other sites).
Unlike Facebook, Telegram doesn't spend any money, let alone billions of dollars, on marketing. We believe that people are smart enough to choose what is best for them. And, judging by the half a billion people using Telegram, this belief is justified.
[1] β WhatsApp Gives Users Ultimatum β Share Data with Facebook or Lose Access
[2] β In December 2020, the Wikipedia article about WhatsApp had the label βThis article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of useβ. Related investigation is discussed here.
[3] β Telegram Source Code
[4] β Reproducible Builds for Telegram Apps
[4] β On Digital Resistance in Russia
[5] β On Telegram Encryption
[6] β U.S. Government Funded The WhatsApp Encryption
[7] β Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
[8] β Facebook Marketing Spending from 2010 to 2019
Telegram surpassed 500 million active users.
In the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world joined Telegram.
Thank you! These milestones were made possible by users like you who invite their friends to Telegram.
If you have contacts that joined in the last few days, you can welcome them using one of Telegramβs unique features, such as an animated sticker or a video message.
To find out more about Telegram features, have a look at /channel/TelegramTips
Iβve been taking part in the discussion in the comments and answering questions. Here are some of the responses:
On Apple-Google censorship /channel/durovschat/518801
On making server-side code open /channel/durovschat/515221
On a privacy-conscious ad platform /channel/durovschat/527441
On US-based encrypted apps /channel/durovschat/519187
On encryption vs. usability when using Secret Chats vs Cloud Chats /channel/durovschat/527081
On maximising security of communication /channel/durovschat/527134
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