• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    That was a pretty big leap from “Telegram founder’s arrest” to “if it’s a crime to build privacy tools….”

    Telegram is not only not a privacy tool, by default it is not private.

    Privacy likely has nothing to do with the arrest. More likely something he was doing that he thought was private did.

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      4 months ago

      More likely something he was doing that he thought was private did.

      Could be. It’ll be interesting to look into when all the facts are made public.

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    4 months ago

    I thought his crime was not handing over data that he had specifically because the privacy on telegram is questionable at best? If just making a privacy focused app we’re a crime we would see this more often. The trick is to make it so that you actually have nothing to hand over when authorities come knocking.

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    4 months ago

    Everyone should be pissed off about this. But they just throw in the words “child pornography” and it’s ok. I am totally against abusing children. I am also against government surveillance.