إنَّي على اعتقادٍ جازمٍ أنَّه لولا شرائع هـٰذا الدين لهلكتُ كمدًا من مدَّة تسبق بلوغ الحُلُم أو تناهزها؛ فإن المنغصات قديمةٌ لم تزل تتعاقب، ونكبات الدهر تذهب بلبِّ اللبيب.
إنَّي على اعتقادٍ جازمٍ أنَّه لولا شرائع هـٰذا الدين لهلكتُ كمدًا من مدَّة تسبق بلوغ الحُلُم أو تناهزها؛ فإن المنغصات قديمةٌ لم تزل تتعاقب، ونكبات الدهر تذهب بلبِّ اللبيب.
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. 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. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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