Technology

Infrastructure will always be used by evil and good. If it exists. Just like a road. Normal people use them as well as murderers.

If a good encryption chat software exists it will be used. It's necessary for normal privacy and sensitive topics between people but those ones will also use it. Nothing to do about it.

I don't really get either of these comments. No one should be using telegram for anything other than a discord clone, and of course the shady turds will gravitate to privacy-focused messaging apps. I mean presumably that's why the turds chose telegram initially, they just fucked up the due diligence and thought telegram was secure because they credulously believed the founder dude who folded under state pressure.

You are surprised that the darkweb chat client has Nazis on it?

So then how do you pair with a connection? Do you send them (out of band like through email or something) some kind of key that they then accept? That sounds super annoying.

For me, the main distinction is selfhostability (although I have concerns about the majority keeping using the default servers, I could still ask a friend or family member to use mine).

Also I am a bit concerned about them pushing the "No identifiers" thing which seems misleading, since you're still identified, just per-conversation.

Telegram has been supplying US government with data on its users

https://www.404media.co/telegram-confirms-it-gave-u-s-user-data-to-the-cops/

Different backgrounds will draw different conclusions. Being in the medical field and not ham radio (had to look up what you’ve mentioned) it would never have occurred to me.

I didn’t mean to offend. Nazi ideology can be like a virus and so is what I stated in my comment. A poorly made joke I guess.