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Tue, 25/06/2024 - 20:01

Telegram is a popular – especially in the East – internet messenger. It bills itself as “encrypted”, “private”, and “secure”. One of its creators (and the CEO of the company that operates the service), Pavel Durov, has for years been suggesting, in a more or less direct manner, that other internet messenger services expose our conversations and endanger our privacy.

It’s a pretty crude, yet surprisingly effective strategy for distracting attention away from Telegram’s very real problems with security and privacy. And there are quite a few of those.

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Tue, 25/06/2024 - 19:40
Julian Assange is expected to be in Australia late tomorrow, a free man. Footage tweeted by Wikileaks hours ago showed Assange walking up the stairs onto an aircraft bound for Saipan in the US-administered Mariana Islands, Monday afternoon UK time. Sources have told Pearls and Irritations Assange is accompanied on the flight by Australian High Continue reading »
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Tue, 25/06/2024 - 08:00
Holy sh*t have you seen this video??? Spread this like wildfire. #VoteDemToRestoreRoe pic.twitter.com/KLvRnwruQU — Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) June 24, 2024 Today is the 2-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. Today one third of American women have lost their rights.