#НаПонимание: шабес-дайджест чужих, но полезных для префронтальной коры постов по версии Последнего Инсайдера. 9-я неделя 2024.
🤚 5 штук совсем про политику:
1. НЕЗЫГАРЬ/BRIEFLY: The Financial Times «Утечка российских военных документов раскрывает критерии возможности ядерного удара […] в сценариях подготовки к вторжению Китая».
2. Беспощадный IT: В новый пакет санкций США с 23 февраля включены крупнейшие российские провайдеры центров обработки данных (ЦОД). Кому и чем это грозит?
#НаПонимание: шабес-дайджест чужих, но полезных для префронтальной коры постов по версии Последнего Инсайдера. 9-я неделя 2024.
🤚 5 штук совсем про политику:
1. НЕЗЫГАРЬ/BRIEFLY: The Financial Times «Утечка российских военных документов раскрывает критерии возможности ядерного удара […] в сценариях подготовки к вторжению Китая».
2. Беспощадный IT: В новый пакет санкций США с 23 февраля включены крупнейшие российские провайдеры центров обработки данных (ЦОД). Кому и чем это грозит?
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. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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