I am not defending Telegram in any way by saying this, but how can you be so certain that content supposely encrypted with MTProto when using Cloud Chat is only stored in plaintext on encrypted disks? Where is the proof of this?

No one can’t prove that Telegram use MTProto to encrypt content sent using Cloud Chat, stores them encrypted, and them decrypt them upon opening because the source code for MTProto is closed. So how can you prove that what you’re saying is the way they use?

Don’t get me wrong in any of this discussion. I don’t trust Telegram anymore. I don’t trust any closed sourced softwares anymore! But one can’t say “it is like this, not like that” without any proof.

After doing a quick scan of their FAQ, there’s nothing about who generated the key. So my wild guess is the client. I bet their source code can answer that question, but I have no clue.

False. If you want to tell how things works, get your facts right!

All data sent to Telegram’s servers will be encrypted once they reach the servers. With other words, the messages and media and other files, will be sent in “plain text” over HTTPS only when using Cloud Chat. In Secret Chat, MTProto is (based on how E2EE works) as safe as what Signal Protocol is.

But nothing will be stored in plain text, no matter what you use (Cloud Chat or Secret Chat).

But(!) since the source code for MTProto is closed, we don’t know how it really works, and if we can trust their FAQ or not.

I trusted Telegram at first, but I don’t trust it 100% anymore (still better than SMS). Am using my own Snikket server these days. Much safer with a lot of 😌😊😍😃 moments, even today, maybe a year later. Especially with OMEMO (Signal Protocol).

Truly disgusting and worrying.

I use my own Piped instance and can watch every video that has no age-restriction. Feels awesome and can highly recommend it.

Forced to solve a reCAPTCHA - I refuse! Can someone please take a screenshot of the article and publish it here?

Thank you! Finally someone that also sees Signal as privacy invasing!

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I find the quality very good. And there’s no problems with setup a “server” :)

1. Go to the preferred Jitsi Meet server.
2. Enter the meeting name (as it really called) or just press enter to get a random name.
3. Enter your details and options (mainly mic on/off and webcam on/off).
4. Enter the meeting. If you’re the first one in it, you’re the moderator.

Once inside and as a moderator, you can create so called breakout rooms. These works just like subchannels in Discord. If you’re many people in 1 call, you can create these to create a more calmer experience. I have personally not tried these out since I have only talked to 1-2 people.

Mumble is a excellent VoIP software, but like you said, screen sharing is not possible since Mumble is just what VoIP means: voice over IP.

I have the same issue, but got 2 Discord users to try Jitsi Meet with me (a friend of mine on my Snikket server invited her friend). After a while, her friend asked me why it looked so much alike Discord and my friend agreed. I gave them a big smile and said, “because this is awesome”.

Jitsi Meet + Snikket has been my saves since I deleted my Discord account during the pandemic.

From my own experience, it all depends on what software you use to view the picture. For an example, Windows 10’s own image viewer, Photos, can view the pictures as pixelated (at least it used to few years ago, might depend of GPU and whatnot), while other image viewers like qimgv lets you zoom in as close as specific words without pixelating the image.

The images below shows just this. The first image shows the image with no zoom, as how qimgv let you see the image when you open the file. The second image shows the image 100% zoomed in, and the third image shows a extreme close-up on 1 word in qimgv.

The photo was taken with the Open Camera app with a Google Pixel 6a (camera resolution set to the highest setting: 4032x3024 (12,19 MP)).

The screenshot below shows the same image, but as much zoomed in I could possible zoom in, in Fossify Gallery.

I live under a rock most of the time, so welcome to the club. What I know of, the leaks are screenshots from the devices. How a 1-on-1 chat on Signal got leaked other than by screenshots is beyond me, though. If there is a breach in Signal Protocol, there’s a breach in OMEMO, too, since OMEMO uses Signal Protocol.

Alright. Haha, I filter out Big Tech and far-right shit on Mastodon :P It’s probably because of that. And if some far-right person starts to chat/talk to me, I often ignore him/her. Luckily, that haven’t happen… yet.

And to comment your first comment further. JD Vance uses Signal, or at least used. There was a massive Signal leak with him involved few months ago.

I have no clue who or what “glowies” are :P Searched the web and found this: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie. Correct?

That’s weird. The image quality is really good for me. Did you check the photo settings and set the camera resolution on max?

You’re welcome :) I have had the same issue before and was like “WTF” until I logged out and then logged back in again.

Try to logout and then log back in again.

I can highly recommend Open Camera. You can install it from F-Droid.

Thanks! Will try them out sometime :) Last time I tried download missions (which was maybe 2 months ago), I got 404. Hopefully that issue will be fixed now.

Edit: the error was not 404, but “Cannot connect to server”. I had to execute a command to make it work. Will give one of these missions a shot now.

The Dark Mod ❤️

Let me know how and where I was obnoxious in my previous post :) That way, I can learn from my mistakes.