So anyone can set up a channel, and those can have tens, hundreds of thousands of followers. It means that you can move quite seamlessly from sending and receiving anonymous private messages to then broadcasting them via channels. GUEST: So Telegram, as you said at the top of the show, is something between a messaging app and a social media platform. GUEST: So doxxing is just the practice of sharing someone's private information on the internet - so their home address, their workplace, their phone number, some identifying information - usually as a way to intimidate them.ĬHANG: And can you explain why this works so well on Telegram specifically?
So can we just first define doxxing? Like, how would you put it? Peter Guest wrote that story and joins us now to explain. But an article in Wired says that the app has now become a breeding ground for major doxxing attacks all around the world. It's globally accessible, offers end-to-end encryption for chats and video calls, and it now claims over 700 million users. Between 2,500 and 4,000 people were killed by the US drone programme in Pakistan before SKYNET was revealed to the public by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2015.The messaging and social media app Telegram was designed to give its users a level of security above regular texting. This might seem like science fiction, but as former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden famously said, “We kill people based on metadata.” He was referring to a machine learning tool called SKYNET, which analysed the metadata of 55 million Pakistani phone users and determined drone strike targets for the US military. IP addresses can be used to track down individual users and even their movements. Like WhatsApp, Telegram also collects metadata – including your IP address and device type – and stores it for up to a year.
Telegram did not respond when asked why they don’t implement a similar method. Other apps, like Signal, have found a way to collect this data while anonymising it. This allows the app to collect data from people who haven’t even signed up to the service. Every contact is then copied and saved by the app, so they can both notify you when someone you know signs up to Telegram, and “properly display names in notifications”, as they say in their privacy policy. Before you message anyone on Telegram, you have to grant the app access to your contact list, just like on WhatsApp.
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