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Telegram as an independent intelligence agency
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Google Launches Key Transparency While a Trade-Off in WhatsApp Is Called a Backdoor | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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| | The Guardian ran a sensational story on Friday claiming a backdoor was discovered in WhatsApp, enabling intelligence agencies to snoop on encrypted messages. Gizmodo followed up saying it's no backdoor at all, but reasonable, intended behavior. So what's really going on here? The lost phone, lost...
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Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes - BBC News
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| | BBC learns platform does not comply with industry norms as its boss remains under arrest in Paris.
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Bulletins/Censorship And Collateral Damage Analyzing The Telegram Ban In Iran | Internet Monitor
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| | [AI summary] This research bulletin analyzes the aftermath of Iran's April 2018 ban on Telegram, detailing the massive surge in use of circumvention tools like Psiphon and the resulting collateral damage to the country's general internet infrastructure.
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part III: Europa Provincalis - A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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| This is the third part of our series (I, II, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive's grand strategy computer game set in the early modern period, Europa Universalis IV (which is in turn the start of a yet larger series looking at several of Paradox's games and how they treat their historical...