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*Most of the time. Not always.

Nah they’re just exempted.

... because they have money/power. You think the judge let him off free just for fun? The judge got paid (or threatened) one way or another. If the du pont guy didn't have the money/connections he did they would have locked him up and not given it a second thought.

Same with Shelly Miscavige, there's a lot of people with money involved. It's an uphill battle. Nobody should be above the law, but it's allowed because if you have enough money you can at the very least exhaust the resources of those trying to come after you.

To be fair, the man's running low on resources and has bigger things to worry about, like staying out of jail - lmfaooo

The rich and powerful are exempt from the rules

Close. They have the resources (money and connections with money) to fight back.

Yes, but nobody expects modern encryption on legacy services like email. Should email be end-to-end encrypted? Absolutely, but that's completely unrelated to private 1-1 and group messaging.

And that's a valid point. Many people use Facebook for the features it provides knowing that they're giving away their data to a third party. As long as the consumer is aware of what they're doing and the pros/cons is all that matters.

all they need and cross-referenced with all the other tracking and accounts they have, there’s zero privacy left.

Privacy, like security, is about layers. Just because they have your metadata doesn't mean you go ahead and give them everything else.

Putting on tinfoil hat: or is it e2e encrypted?

Fair criticism, I'd recommend either Signal, Matrix, or XMPP over Telegram/Facebook(Meta).

You can derive pretty much everything from that [Metadata] alone.

Oversimplifying what actually happens. They can infer what may have happened based on other data points but its not 100% accurate. You can avoid all these metadata issues by not using messengers by Google/Facebook/Meta/Telegram in the first place.

Same here. I've got Debian stable on a Dell Latitude 2-in1 (can't remember the model number) and it works great with Gnome and I can flip the keyboard backwards and use it like a tablet. Although it is bulkier because it has a keyboard attached.

But Telegram isn't private/secure by default. By default everything is stored on their servers in an way that's accessible to admins, whoever buys them or infiltrates their infra - YIKES

This might provide some insight:

moxie0 MoxieSignal Staff Aug '17

I think there’s an issue for this already, but if you write and maintain a place picker library which doesn’t use Google >Maps that’s API compatible with the one from play services, we could look at including it.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/share-location-without-gapps-on-android-phone/1246/2

for the curious, how much RAM do you have?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck cops