[shubb]

Telegram is based in UAE, a country famous for Totok, a social network designed to spy on you.

The UAE is an absolute monarchy, and the law is a little more openly a tool if the state than in the west. A company with legal challenges exists there because the state wants it to.

The UAE looks unaligned but in a real way it is part of a Chinese Russian axis when it comes to this sort of thing. For example totok was based on Chinese spyware.

For those of us who don't share truly sensitive information, I'm sure it's fine, but Ukrainian war reporters probably shouldn't have it installed.

[CryptoBanker]

Would it shock you to learn that Telegram is a major source of news for the ongoing Ukraine/Russia conflict?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17868