Happy New Year from IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors*
Dear IEEE Members,
As we welcome the New Year, the IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors extends its warmest greetings to all members across the globe. May this year bring you success, innovation, and progress in all your endeavors. We are proud to have such a vibrant community of professionals, researchers, and students contributing to the advancement of technology and humanity. In the upcoming year. We look forward to hearing stories about you that time zones can't erase and cherishing moments that distance can't diminish. Wishing you and your loved ones a prosperous, and inspiring year ahead.
With best wishes, IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors*
Happy New Year from IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors*
Dear IEEE Members,
As we welcome the New Year, the IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors extends its warmest greetings to all members across the globe. May this year bring you success, innovation, and progress in all your endeavors. We are proud to have such a vibrant community of professionals, researchers, and students contributing to the advancement of technology and humanity. In the upcoming year. We look forward to hearing stories about you that time zones can't erase and cherishing moments that distance can't diminish. Wishing you and your loved ones a prosperous, and inspiring year ahead.
With best wishes, IEEE Iran Section Board of Directors*
Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications. So, uh, whenever I hear about Telegram, it’s always in relation to something bad. What gives? Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. In this regard, Sebi collaborated with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to reduce the vulnerability of the securities market to manipulation through misuse of mass communication medium like bulk SMS.
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