Re:Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
by eitland on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:59AM
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No, only if you are
- fighting someone who controls Stripe well enough to browse transaction logs
- or you are fighting someone who can access your bank transactions (more likely in this case) and manage to correlate them correctly with Telegram account creation time
Both seems like huge steps forward compared to sms validation.
Furthermore: Bitcoin is not much safer for the ordinary citizen. If anything it is way easier to trace than cash and I guess slightly more different to trace than bank transfers.
- fighting someone who controls Stripe well enough to browse transaction logs
- or you are fighting someone who can access your bank transactions (more likely in this case) and manage to correlate them correctly with Telegram account creation time
Both seems like huge steps forward compared to sms validation.
Furthermore: Bitcoin is not much safer for the ordinary citizen. If anything it is way easier to trace than cash and I guess slightly more different to trace than bank transfers.
Or am I missing something?