[tlug] Telegram (Was: Shanios?)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <steve@??>]

Curt J. Sampson writes:

 > Telegram [keeps history private] pretty well, while also stopping
 > far short of Google, Apple and similar organisations that will
 > actually turn over your entire cloud-stored message history to
 > governments without much objection. (Telegram-the- organisation
 > goes to special lengths to try to prevent this from happening,
 > including keeping the cloud-stored history fragmented across
 > multiple countries in a way that getting all the data stored in one
 > country doesn't actually reveal any information. Or so I'm told.)

We'll see how long that lasts, now that Putin has decided to put Durov
on a short leash.  For the moment it's a good bet, though.  But I
would be thinking about alternatives if I depended on those features.

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