You can now make anonymous offers to owners of Telegram usernames – letting them know how much you’d be willing to bid if they put their username up for auction.
To encourage serious offers, sending an offer requires a small fee. If the owner chooses to auction their username, you’ll get a notification on Telegram.
You can now make anonymous offers to owners of Telegram usernames – letting them know how much you’d be willing to bid if they put their username up for auction.
To encourage serious offers, sending an offer requires a small fee. If the owner chooses to auction their username, you’ll get a notification on Telegram.
Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. Some privacy experts say Telegram is not secure enough
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