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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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There is a reason every illegal operation runs on Telegram, not Signal. The security is good.
Bruh people sell drugs on Snapchat. That doesn't mean Snapchat's "security" (they have none) is "good."
Very stupid people sure, but they're there, and the ones doing the same on Telegram are just as dumb. If you want to find the real ones you'll need to learn about Tails, Dread, and XMR.
Or it's because the platform is nearly unmoderated and has benefited greatly from the network effect.
It's actually because that claim is flat out false. People sell drugs on Snapchat for starters, back in the day it started on IRC (afaik) if you knew the right spots, Silk Road is closed (and all those using the name since are scams) and I think WHM (last I knew) exit scammed, but someone took up the job (idk who, check Dread.)
There, fixed that for them lol.
About that... None of these are safe. Signal is not safe either.
that looks like the control panel(?) has full access to the target device already. usually when talking about security of communication softwares we don't consider this kind of attacks..
That is true, but also this entire "control panel" is ai generated. Lots of smudgy text, misspelled words, bad number formatting, etc.
lmaoo yeah you're right, wtf
yeah, if they get full access to your device no amount of end to end encryption will avoid that
no matter how secure the chat app protocol is, as long as one of the users in the chat is compromised they can access to those chats
is anything safe?
Only the federated networks, no one controlling entity nor country, best part is open source, because we the people, get to say what goes, and what doesn't.