🇪🇨 #эквадор вводит режим ЧС по энергетике из-за засухи в Андах, из-за которой не хватает воды для гидроэнергетики, плюс перебои с водой в кранах из-за пересыхания резервуаров. Плюс один кризис к международному кризису из-за нападения на посольство #мексика и криминальному кризису из-за войны с картелями — только что застрелили мэра города Портовело на юге страны.
🇪🇨 #эквадор вводит режим ЧС по энергетике из-за засухи в Андах, из-за которой не хватает воды для гидроэнергетики, плюс перебои с водой в кранах из-за пересыхания резервуаров. Плюс один кризис к международному кризису из-за нападения на посольство #мексика и криминальному кризису из-за войны с картелями — только что застрелили мэра города Портовело на юге страны.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. 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. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. "This time we received the coordinates of enemy vehicles marked 'V' in Kyiv region," it added.
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