Tag: Telegram

Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 30, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of October 30th, 2020 Thailand orders ISPs to block Telegram amid ongoing protests According to a leaked document that was marked top secret, the Thai government has ordered internet service providers to block the popular messaging app Telegram. Telegram was being used by Thai protesters to organize, and the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 30, 2020”

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  • Oct 20, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN,

Thailand orders ISPs to block Telegram amid ongoing protests

Thai users of Telegram will soon need a VPN to access the increasingly popular messaging app. The government of Thailand has ordered Thai internet service providers (ISPs) to block the Telegram encrypted messaging service. This news comes to us from a leaked government document that was sent from Thailand’s digital economy ministry to the country’s … Continue reading “Thailand orders ISPs to block Telegram amid ongoing protests”

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  • Sep 17, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal app, researchers were able to perform a large-scale crawling attack and figure out which American phone numbers were attached to a Signal account. The new … Continue reading “Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: June 26th, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of JUNE 26th, 2020 Internet freedom under attack by Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritan’s Act A new bill called The Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act has been introduced to the US Senate by Senator Josh Hawley. Like its name suggests, the bill would place … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: June 26th, 2020”

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Russia’s Telegram Ban Is a Fiasco, and It’s Rendering Millions of IP Addresses Inaccessible

Russia officially began implementing its Telegram ban on Monday, and it has gone about as poorly as could be expected. Far from just blocking Telegram, which incurred the ire of Russia’s censors for refusing to provide intelligence agencies with encryption keys that would allow them to access private user data, Ars Technica reports that Russian … Continue reading “Russia’s Telegram Ban Is a Fiasco, and It’s Rendering Millions of IP Addresses Inaccessible”

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  • Apr 14, 2018 |
  • Josiah Wilmoth |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, VPN,

Pavel Durov: A VPN Does Bypass Russia’s Telegram Ban

Telegram users in Russia will now need to install a VPN to ensure that they have uninterrupted access to the popular encrypted messaging app. On April 13, a Russian court levied an official ban against Telegram for refusing to hand over the service’s encryption keys to government intelligence services, which would have compromised the privacy … Continue reading “Pavel Durov: A VPN Does Bypass Russia’s Telegram Ban”

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  • Oct 16, 2017 |
  • David Meyer |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Telegram is preparing to fight the Russian authorities over crypto keys

The encrypted messaging app Telegram continues to have a tough time in Russia. Having previously been threatened with blockage for not providing operational information, Telegram has now been hit with a significant fine – and ordered to hand over the encryption keys that led to the fine in the first place. Early on Monday, a … Continue reading “Telegram is preparing to fight the Russian authorities over crypto keys”

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