When you land in Barcelona, you’re technically arriving at an airport located near a small town called El Prat, which the airport is named after. Once in a while, when I’m in Barcelona, I like to visit El Prat (it’s just a 20-minute bus ride) and walk a small trail that leads from the town to the beach. The trail also runs along the back of the airport runway, allowing you to see planes landing up close. The following photos are all taken on Sunday.
When you land in Barcelona, you’re technically arriving at an airport located near a small town called El Prat, which the airport is named after. Once in a while, when I’m in Barcelona, I like to visit El Prat (it’s just a 20-minute bus ride) and walk a small trail that leads from the town to the beach. The trail also runs along the back of the airport runway, allowing you to see planes landing up close. The following photos are all taken on Sunday.
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. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. 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. If you initiate a Secret Chat, however, then these communications are end-to-end encrypted and are tied to the device you are using. That means it’s less convenient to access them across multiple platforms, but you are at far less risk of snooping. Back in the day, Secret Chats received some praise from the EFF, but the fact that its standard system isn’t as secure earned it some criticism. If you’re looking for something that is considered more reliable by privacy advocates, then Signal is the EFF’s preferred platform, although that too is not without some caveats.
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