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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by codethief on Saturday August 24, 2024 @07:24PM (#41342757)
How is Signal "a kind of scam in that regard"?
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by foverzar on Saturday August 24, 2024 @08:35PM (#41343235)
Government funding?

Mandatory phone number exposure? (or did they finally implement usernames?)

A joke of a "registration lock pin" instead a proper 2FA to protect against sim-swap?

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by literallycancer on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:04PM (#41343408)
Funding source is irrelevant.
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by Synaesthesia on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:32PM (#41343552)
Kind of important for trust reasons.
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by kome on Saturday August 24, 2024 @09:32PM (#41343556)
that's honestly quite naive
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tapoxi on Sunday August 25, 2024 @03:02AM (#41345082)
Yes they implemented usernames earlier this year. They are fully rolled out and don't expose your phone number.

They received $3 million from the open technology fund, which is a government sponsored fund for censorship circumvention projects. https://www.opentech.fund/about/congressional-remit/

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by dijit on Sunday August 25, 2024 @12:39AM (#41344432)
https://blog.dijit.sh/i-don-t-trust-signal/

tl;dr: Lots of claims, lots of support.. but very little to back it up once you scratch the surface.

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