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Terrorgram, a network of neo-Nazi channels, is spreading across Brazil (nucleo.jor.br)

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 3 months ago

Damn it's a really good thing that Telegram sucks so bad and that groups never had access to end-to-end-encryption.

Will make these people easier to identify.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago

These small factions of complete assholes put a stain on encryption technologies that governments like to point out. I still think that everyone should have easy access to high quality encryption. While it can be enabling for groups like this, the nanny state alternative we continue to move towards is ultimately worse.

[-] SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Those group channels do NOT have encryption, telegram misleading users is an absolute stain. All this is stored in plain text on Telegram's servers.

[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

It's not plain text. It should be encrypted using keys stored on server. Still not end-to-end.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Everything which exists ephemerally on the server, but could as well not exist, that you can't verify, should be considered non-existent.

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

That implies law enforcement will investigate right wing extremists, which they often don't because they're a part of that whole thing. Loads of LEOs give their buddies insider info to avoid being flagged.

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Apart from the encryption, how exactly does it suck?

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

"Terrorists" is such an interesting word.

As in - invading Iraq wasn't terrorist apparently. 15 years ago from the news it seemed to have produced a backlog of war crimes to be investigated for like half a century (maybe exaggerating), but in fact the investigations stopped as soon as public attention got saturated.

I've heard the Artsakh Defense Army being called "bandits" and "terrorists", and they are all my brothers (if they want that).

Still, to those "terrorist" bros who really use it I'd advise to move asap to something which is not snake oil. Again, Signal, or DeltaChat, or whatever else they find, just should do some research.

[-] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Nelson Mandela was also considered a terrorist till 2008

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Some of those are better people than their enemies too. All of them sometimes.

It's a real problem that guerillas use insecure means of communication. They are an important component of our world's stability. A counterweight, so to say.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No other religions, huh? Just islam? Very telling. Nothing to say about christian/hindu/zionist terror...

[-] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah it always strikes me how religious extremism is framed. You rarely hear about christian extremists, who operate in the open on all social networks.

Yet, you could argue that Christian extremists have done more harm to western societies in the last 20 years than any Islamic group.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

As far as I am concerned, Azerbaijan and Turkey are Muslim and Israel is Jewish, so the most harmful terrorists are not Christian.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Islamists have committed a genocide against Yazidis and Assyrians just a few years ago. Islamists are also committing crimes against Christians in a few places in Africa you've never heard about.

Christianity, when it's not European, is a much more humane religion than Islam. Should be the reason why European colonial powers were so eager to rely on Muslims in India and Africa, again.

Hindu terror is a thing. Last time I heard it was against Christians though, just recently. They also have a rather harsh regime in Kashmir, but that's mirrored on the Pakistani side, so a draw between Hindus and Muslims.

Zionism is not a religion.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

I hate this dichotomy of government surveillance vs assholes that abuse privacy and freedom.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 8 points 3 months ago

for real, i wish we didnt "need" government surveillance because people just didnt do bad shit

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 months ago

Did they really call themselves "Terrorgram"?

That's a level of self-awareness I didn't know fascists possessed.

[-] curry@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

It sounds like a name deliberately chosen by the author writing whatever techno-political thriller novel they're working on.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Telegram should just pretend to care like Facebook and they'll get left alone and the neo Nazis will still have their groups.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

It's called "X" now..

Get with the times.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

X is banned in Brazil now.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I wonder if it's because they are opposing Elon Musk?

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