From 5cca1c2489446e1f497830be47a912f47f142218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Blue Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 15:38:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] #228 --- drafts/Telegram.md | 7 +++++-- notes/Notes-Telegram.md | 8 +++----- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drafts/Telegram.md b/drafts/Telegram.md index f0559722..b028a768 100644 --- a/drafts/Telegram.md +++ b/drafts/Telegram.md @@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ One of my primary justifications for the time spent in composing this Post has t > All group messages on Telegram are only encrypted between your device and Telegram’s cloud, your message history is stored on Telegram’s cloud, and if you ([unwisely](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/01/30/stop-using-this-dangerous-whatsapp-setting-on-your-apple-iphone-or-google-android-phone/)) transfer your WhatsApp chat history to Telegram, then this is also stored on its cloud. Make you sure understand that Telegram has the decryption keys to any of your data that you store on its cloud... -To this argument and the many variations of it present in Telegram for iOS' [App Store reviews](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/telegram-messenger/id686449807), [obscure German PeerTube servers](https://tube.tchncs.de/w/2d958ef9-1be4-477c-bc13-852ec6391487), and even within [public chats on Telegram, itself](https://t.me/crackheadlegit/409), my formal response for the record is: *Okay! Affirmative! Received and understood!* I must acknowledge - given my own introduction to the service, narrated above - that Telegram's brand is vaguely associated with privacy and security. I can see that the second of nine duckies in the Ducky Grid on the root of telegram.org sits above the subhead "**Private**" and a caption with the following claim: "Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct." +To this argument and the many variations of it present in Telegram for iOS' [App Store reviews](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/telegram-messenger/id686449807), [obscure German PeerTube servers](https://tube.tchncs.de/w/2d958ef9-1be4-477c-bc13-852ec6391487), and even within [public chats on Telegram, itself](https://t.me/crackheadlegit/409), my formal response for the record is: *Okay! Affirmative! Received and understood!* I must acknowledge - given my own introduction to the service, narrated above - that Telegram's brand is vaguely associated with privacy and security. I can see that the second of nine duckies in the Ducky Grid on the root of telegram.org sits above the subhead "**Private**" and a caption with the following claim: "Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct." (The seventh ducky's subhead is "**Secure**.") Continuing on in Doffman's *Forbes* article, we find an overview of several vulnerabilities found throughout Telegram's native clients by Dhiraj Mishra - surely they with the most ghastly typographical preferences in all of cybersecurity - on their blog, *Input Zero*.[^6] The [specific example hyperlinked](https://www.inputzero.io/2020/12/telegram-privacy-fails-again.html) concerns a bug in the MacOS client that resulted in "the application leak[ing] the sandbox path where [a sent audio or video message] is stored in '.mp4' file." (The whole of the ghastly-typewritten summary is embedded below in screenshot form.) + +![Telegram Privacy - InputZero](https://i.snap.as/a0xgY5cJ.png) ![Telegram Green](https://i.snap.as/e2g09wl3.png) @@ -78,4 +80,5 @@ To this argument and the many variations of it present in Telegram for iOS' [App [2] If I were to be 100% sincere, I might ask you to consider that this (hilariously brief) intent was a method of coping with the great existential truths I was facing for the first time. [3] I *definitey* was, though. For whatever reason, I do not remember associating the term “automation” with such activities, but I just found the “receipt” for my “purchase” of [IFTTT for iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ifttt/id660944635)… From July, 2013. [4] I am currently working on a less-than-instant solution using iCloud and CopyQ’s clipboard sync function. -[5] I would’ve said “one can never have too many backups,” but the result of such thinking is ridiculously wasteful and not something I actually want to encourage. \ No newline at end of file +[5] I would’ve said “one can never have too many backups,” but the result of such thinking is ridiculously wasteful and not something I actually want to encourage. +[6] I'm almost positive I've heard of/been linked to this blog before. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/Notes-Telegram.md b/notes/Notes-Telegram.md index 4db6a33b..0594ebb9 100644 --- a/notes/Notes-Telegram.md +++ b/notes/Notes-Telegram.md @@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ ## References -- [ ] [Drafts Directory: Send to Telegram] -- [ ] [(https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/18E) +- [ ] [Drafts Directory: Send to Telegram](https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/18E) - [ ] [Telegram | The Eastern Border](https://shows.acast.com/theeasternborder/episodes/telegram) - [ ] [How-to: Markdown/Formatting Text in Telegram](https://telegra.ph/markdown-07-07) - [ ] [Keyboard Shortcuts · telegramdesktop/tdesktop Wiki](https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcuts) @@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ - [ ] [Telegram - Review 2021 - PCMag UK](https://uk.pcmag.com/iphone-apps/76144/telegram-messenger-for-iphone-review) - [ ] [Mandatory WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to be Shared With Facebook - MacRumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-privacy-policy-data-sharing-facebook/) - [ ] [WhatsApp clarifies privacy practices after surge in Signal and Telegram users - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarification) +- [ ] [The "P" in Telegram stands for Privacy ~ inputzero](https://www.inputzero.io/2020/12/telegram-privacy-fails-again.html) ## Themes * [Tweetbot 6 Pro](https://t.me/addtheme/Tweetbot6Pro) @@ -60,16 +60,14 @@ - [ ] `![Quartered Telegram](https://i.snap.as/387ADVNS.png)` - [ ] `![Quarter Telegram](https://i.snap.as/wYNY5aVO.png)` - [x] `![Patel Clouds Theme in the Chat Background Tool](https://i.snap.as/9Bxz27ZX.png)` - - [ ] `![Local Visibility and Voice Notes Publishing in Telegram for iOS](https://i.snap.as/jfBVJqyw.png)` - - [ ] `` - [ ] `![iOS Old Red Theme](https://i.snap.as/cfzQk533.png)` - - [ ] `![Telegram for iOS Sharing and Notifications](https://i.snap.as/FltrCV6Z.png)` - [x] `![Send to Telegram Drafts Action](https://i.snap.as/p3K96LiX.png)` - [ ] `![Telegram in CarPlay](https://i.snap.as/0jm5rxyy.png)` - [x] `![Security Considerations in Telegram for iOS](https://i.snap.as/Qim9gsZZ.png)` +- [ ] `![Telegram Privacy - InputZero](https://i.snap.as/a0xgY5cJ.png)`