highdesert wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:25 am It's understandable why they chose Telegram, secrecy like Tor browsers and Russian developed.
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We have been using Telegram privately for several years. Russia fined them for not being willing to write a back door to allow the Russians to get in secretly. I have been told that the FBI agents are usually forbidden from using Telegram. Somewhere over in the China/Hong Kong situation I heard someone (Chinese media perhaps?) complaining.
Supposedly ISIS was using Telegram to order munitions and parts so I'd say it's pretty secure but this advent of public channels rather than private groups is a new one to me.
BTW, it's pretty widely known that the FBI hired the designer of the Tor browser to write a back door into that product.
Some of the bad groups have moved to VK.com, which is a Russian site. I've kinda thought for awhile that no one monitors that one in English because there are plenty of racial and ethnic slurs there.