У метро Павелецкая два восточных товарища из под полы раздавали сим-карты. Бесплатно. Были в наличии пачки Билайн, Мегафон, МТС. Везде предлагали обратиться за регистрацией на Whatsapp, типа читайте наклейку на карте. Спросил сколько за вечер уходит симок, ответ позабавил - штук сто в час. Карты не показывают, просто негромко бормочат, - "сим-карты бесплатно". Боятся полиции, но место хлебное и раздают, делают свой бизнес. Так что проблема с такими раздачами осталась, пусть и не стоит так остро.
У метро Павелецкая два восточных товарища из под полы раздавали сим-карты. Бесплатно. Были в наличии пачки Билайн, Мегафон, МТС. Везде предлагали обратиться за регистрацией на Whatsapp, типа читайте наклейку на карте. Спросил сколько за вечер уходит симок, ответ позабавил - штук сто в час. Карты не показывают, просто негромко бормочат, - "сим-карты бесплатно". Боятся полиции, но место хлебное и раздают, делают свой бизнес. Так что проблема с такими раздачами осталась, пусть и не стоит так остро.
The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts.
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