@opensourceopenmind similarly, I got my family and friends to talk to me via #DeltaChat because I simply don't have #WhatsApp, #Telegram etc. in my phone, I never try to convince them talking about encryption or open source, I simply say "I don't use that apps, you can reach me in this one" and then it is about a practical problem and not ideological one, I don't go saying "you should uninstall whatsapp now" but they are more willing to respect/understand your own ideological decisions

@bogo

AutoCraft‑Bot: Telegram как пульт управления Windows

Этот проект я изначально писал для себя и под свои рабочие привычки: хотелось иметь быстрый “пульт” к компьютеру/серверу из Telegram, где всё управляется кнопками, без постоянного ввода команд. Потом стало понятно, что штука может пригодиться и другим людям, поэтому я решил выложить её в открытый доступ. Репозиторий на GitHub: github.com/andreykadelite/Auto… Последняя версия на GitHub на момент публикации: v1.1.7 . Если интересно, как всё начиналось и к чему я пришёл по ходу разработки, у меня уже выходили две статьи на Хабре:

habr.com/ru/articles/981150/

#telegram #Accessibility #windows #gui #bot

AutoCraft‑Bot: Telegram как пульт управления Windows

Этот проект я изначально писал для себя и под свои рабочие привычки: хотелось иметь быстрый “пульт” к компьютеру/серверу из Telegram, где всё управляется кнопкам...

^{Andrey3343 (Habr)}

so many protocols out there, but none gives you that sassy feeling as chatting over #email 💅🫦

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #XMPP #Signal #Matrix #Telegram #IRC

@ambiguous_yelp

> SimpleX is also decentralised with multi-profile

but it doesn't have proper multi-device support besides the UI is pretty bad, not user friendly, not on the level of mainstream apps like #WhatsApp or #Telegram, see this #SimpleX screenshot for example

#Telegram has a nice and fast UI, granted.

But the 1 billion people using TG are at risk because of its big central database that any state security service craves for. Moreover, several anonymization proxy-bot offerings were hacked in 2024, identifying millions of users and content.

#deltachat builds anonymization directly into the app and has pervasive end-to-end encryption. #chatmail relay operators can sleep well, knowing they have nothing. Ergo, E2EE is good for any operators sleep! :)

I love #deltachat at first-sight few days ago, like I was love #telegram at first sight around twelve years ago.

Only one thing I missed on deltachat now, there's no simple library to create deltachat bot using #nodejs, like telegraf for telegram.

from a random community chat: "#Telegram secret chats exist so you can share your #deltachat QR/link to get off Telegram 😇"

In related news, Arte published a well-done documentary film about "Telegram, the dark empire of Pawel Durov" up (german audio only) arte.tv/de/videos/122721-000-A… -- it's a dive into various TG happenings during the last decades, biographical origins of telegram development, the durov brothers etc..

Telegram - Das dunkle Imperium von Pawel Durow - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Letzte Bastion der Meinungsfreiheit oder Spielwiese für Extremisten und Kriminelle? Am Messenger-Dienst Telegram scheiden sich die Geister. Genau wie an seinem mysteriösen Gründer, dem Tech-Milliardär Pawel Durow.

^ARTE

Telegram, the cloud-based freemium chat, has now implemented strict rate limiting for users of alternative clients, VPNs and virtual phone numbers.
Clients like Nekogram, Nagram, Cherrygram and Unigram may show transmission delays or errors.
If your client had recently become slower, disable the VPN and use a real number.

#telegram #android #windows #linux #software #opensource #foss #cloud #im #chat #vpn

What an announcement from #Telegram owner Pawel Durov! To provide just a few critical notes, he

- makes believe he is just a commoner, and not the billionaire owner of one of the largest message, media and metadata *cleartext* databases on earth

- skips over Global Warming

- refers to "fathers and forefathers" of the Internet ... apparently never heard of Radia Perlman, Margaret Hamilton or Ada Lovelace?

- conveniently excludes Russia and its authoritarian politics from his critique

etc.

Hey, did you know that Movim allows you to link your #Discord, #Telegram, #WhatsApp and #Matrix accounts to your main XMPP one and chat with all your contacts in one integrated platform? 🤩

We are working hard with @nicoco to ensure a perfect integration with the Slidge gateways project slidge.im/ 🥸🤝🥸

Message synchronization, reactions, stickers, GIFs, chatrooms, invitations, file transfer... you can now find all those exciting features fully working across all your linked accounts in Movim ✨.

Now you can move to #XMPP while staying in contact with all your friends. 👌

Try it out on mov.im/ or by deploying your own instance 😸!

Wrote a little blogpost about Slidgram (XMPP<->Telegram transport for XMPP server) installation in the NetBSD

eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/0…

#NetBSD #XMPP #Prosody #Telegram

Proč už nevěřím Telegramu

Je to deset let, co jsem začal používat Telegram. Za tu dobu jsem přesvědčil hodně lidí, aby ho začali používat, obhajoval jsem ho, ale v poslední době mám čím dál větší pocit, že jsem se v něm mýlil. V tomto blogpostu se pokusím vysvětlit proč.

#Durov #IM #instantMessaging #Signal #Telegram

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/09/04/p…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Proč už nevěřím Telegramu

^{Sesivany's blog}

> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees.

👉 First: the story is not about the servers, it's about whose infrastructure the traffic flows through.

👉 Secondly: Vedeneev, the Russian owner of the infrastructure provider GNM used by Telegram, had signed documents as Telegram's CFO (would that qualify as "employee"?), and presented himself in Florida court as the person authorized to handle Telegram's servers.

🧵

#Telegram #FSB

> Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia.

There we go with the servers again!

Regarding employees – okay, so was Vedeneev a contractor? In the story he himself says that that the arrangement was "informal".

Telegram tries to pull a "Schrödinger's Vedeneev" here. He's an "employee" when handling the hardware in Florida, but not an "employee" in Russia? I guess?

Regardless, all that is beside the point, which is: traffic analysis and cleartext device identifier.

🧵

#Telegram

Telegram has responded to IStories' piece:

> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees. Unauthorized access is not possible. Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia. In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties, and its encryption has never been hacked
vot-tak.tv/87198696/fsb-chitae…

This answers exactly zero of the crucial points raised by the story.

Let's dissect it! 🔍

🧵

#Telegram #FSB

Telegram может быть небезопасен для пользователей по всему миру. «Важные истории» выяснили, как мессенджер Павла Дурова связан с ФСБ

Российские спецслужбы имеют доступ к переписке сотен миллионов пользователей Telegram — как в России, так и за рубежом. Об этом говорится в расследовании «Важных историй».

^{Telewizja Polska S.A}

As part of the investigation, I have looked closely at Telegram's protocol and analyzed packet captures provided by IStories.

I have also done some packet captures of my own.

I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details of what I found and how I found it on my blog:

Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
rys.io/en/179.html

Yes, my packet captures and a small Python library I wrote in the process are all published along.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy #Surveillance #Russia

Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
istories.media/stories/2025/06…

English version by OCCRP:
occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

^OCCRP

Telegram wirbt mit Sicherheit – doch laut einer Recherche kontrolliert ein russischer Netzwerktechniker namens Vedeneev große Teile der Infrastruktur, inklusive IP-Adressen und Serverzugang. Seine Firmen kooperierten mit FSB & Militär. Selbst »Ende-zu-Ende«-Chats lassen sich laut Experten zur Nutzerverfolgung ausnutzen. 👇

occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

#Telegram #Überwachung #Surveillance #FSB

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

^OCCRP

If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.

Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app.

xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

france24.com/en/live-news/2025…

#AI #Telegram

Telegram to get $300 mn in partnership with Musk's xAI

Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram's CEO announced Wednesday.

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

I really recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat anonymous login without any phone number or any private data required, you can create as many accounts and add as many devices as you want, all work smoothly no encryption problems with multi-device etc and it has a better interface than #matrix on the level of #WhatsApp and #Telegram super user-friendly and painless to onboard family and friends

And you LITERALLY own your data and can browse it and search it offline

Die Welt ist voller Messenger und gefühlt nutzen die allermeisten #WhatsApp, #Telegram oder #Signal.

Alle haben ihre individuellen Vor- und Nachteile und wer sich dann noch die die üblichen Sicherheitsseiten anschaut, z.B. @kuketzblog , wird schnell feststellen: Es gibt nicht DEN einen Messenger, den alle gut finden.

Warum ich unter den verfügbaren Alternativen neben @signalapp @matrix nutze, habe ich hier zusammengefasst:

bsdbox.de/matrix

#Telegram nabízí další limitované dárky! 🎁 Stále mi chybí funkce, abych si dárek mohl zakoupit sám pro sebe. Ten gramofon nutně potřebuji. 😀😀

#TelegramUpdates

Werft mal einen Blick auf die Messenger-Matrix. Trotz aller Bemühungen kann es sein, dass nicht alle Informationen zu den Messengern aktuell sind. In diesem Fall bitte ich um Rückmeldung, damit ich die Matrix anpassen kann. ❤️ 👇

messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…

FAQ: codeberg.org/kuketzblog/www.me…

#briar #conversations #xmpp #deltachat #discord #element #matrix #facebook #google #imessage #jami #line #session #signal #simplex #siskin #skype #telegram #teleguard #threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

www.messenger-matrix.de

Die Messenger-Matrix bietet einen Überblick über die verschiedenen (technischen) Merkmale diverser Messenger. Die Matrix wird auf www.messenger-matrix.de gehostet.

^Codeberg.org

Špinavé peníze z Donbasu financovaly Telegram.

#telegram #czech

youtube.com/watch?v=fUrIHzhMPC…

The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.

Don't settle for anything less than E2E #encryption! We've created a list of the top encrypted messaging apps to help!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:

Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
rys.io/en/171.html

Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.

Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.

Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.

They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.

#telegram - unikla data o 361 milionech účtů

Proč je vlastně Telegram tak rozšířený? Vždyť komunikace není E2E šifrovaná a zabezpečenějších konkurentů je vícero?

chip.cz/oblibeny-komunikator-b…

Oblíbený komunikátor byl hacknut: unikla data o 361 milionech účtů – není mezi nimi i ten váš?

Na messenger Telegram zaútočili hackeři, kterým se podařilo získat citlivé informace z 361 milionů účtů. To je přibližně 122 gigabajtů důvěrných dat. Pokud tento komunikátor používáte, raději prověřte, zda se to náhodou netýká i vás.

^{Jiří Palyza (Chip.cz)}

«Telegram Combolists and 361M Email Addresses»
– by @troyhunt

Telegram was never secure but now is it very clear. You us it, why?

🤷 troyhunt.com/telegram-combolis…

—
#telegram #itsecurity #email #combolist

Telegram Combolists and 361M Email Addresses

Last week, a security researcher sent me 122GB of data scraped out of thousands of Telegram channels. It contained 1.7k files with 2B lines and 361M unique email addresses of which 151M had never been seen in HIBP before.

^{Troy Hunt}

Der Messenger #Telegram ist für eine sichere Kommunikation nicht geeignet - standardmäßig sind die Nachrichten nicht einmal Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt. Besser geeignet sind #Signal oder #Threema. Übrigens: Elon Musk ist das Paradebeispiel eines Trolls. Einfach ignorieren. 😉

Wer eine Entscheidungshilfe für einen Messenger sucht: messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…

#sicherheit #security #schwachstelle #e2ee #vulnerabilty #musk #durow

#ISW, May 8 assessment: "Reports indicate that there is an available open-source tool that allows people to search by specific coordinates for Telegram users who have enabled a certain location-sharing setting."

But of course there is. The russian-engineering, roll-your-own-crypto, cryptocoin-shilling, encrypted-but-not-encrypted messaging app to have a zero-day exploited privacy flaw exposing users' location? I can't imagine where such failures would come from.

#telegram #zeroday #privacy

#Followerpower ist gefragt. Nachdem großen Update der Messenger-Matrix habe ich noch den Line-Messenger ergänzt. Ich bitte alle #Follower mal einen prüfenden Blick auf die Matrix zu werfen - insbesondere auf jene Messenger, die ihr selbst benutzt. Sollten Angaben nicht stimmen bzw. überarbeitet werden, so meldet das bitte. Entweder hier oder über die Projektseite.

messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…

#messenger #element #matrix #signal #simplex #telegram #line
#threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

Many people affected by the recent blocking of #Telegram in 🇪🇸 Spain are looking for alternatives - especially decentralized ones.

#Snikket is one of those alternatives, and fully open-source. However, our Spanish translations are lacking, which can lead to a poor experience for our #hispanohablante friends.

If you think you could help us with translation, please reach out 🙂

snikket.org/contact/

Contact Us

Community chat Snikket is an open, friendly and welcoming community. The primary place to discuss the project is our chatroom on XMPP: general@channels.snikket.

^snikket.org