A service not designed with anonymity in mind will be vulnerable to infiltration. that members of the group may be coerced into turning into a narc), then a requirement is that the pseudonyms of users cannot be tied to their real-life identity using any technical means. If you assume that infiltration is a risk (e.g. For things like Discord or Telegram, the mere participation in a criminal chat room can be incriminating even if the contents of the conversations themselves are kept private.Ī criminal network requires a few things to continue to exist. There is no single centralized entity which can be forced into disclosing logs, because no single Tor relay simultaneously knows both the contents of the messages and their origin. The Tor network is designed specifically to hide the origin of the communications. The main issue with moving off of an anonymity network to Discord or Telegram is that they are not designed for anonymity. Am I wrong? What do you think about this Checkpoint Research report? My claim is that Discord/Telegram is way less private than a Tor-based forum or even an anonymous forum on the clearnet. I see the same pattern with erotic content: some weeks ago Anon-IB (you could post as Anonymous) was shut down and people moved to Discord groups. In most American countries you need an official ID to register for SIM card. I don't do any illegal activity, but I don't feel comfortable (privacy-wise) registering my mobile phone number for Telegram and similar services (such as Discord). Start to receive notifications of clandestine conversations and offersĭirectly to their smartphone, all while keeping their identity If in the past several steps were required toĮnsure an anonymous connection to TOR, today any Telegram user canĮasily and quickly join channels with a single tap on their phone and Any threatĪctor with a shady offer or conversation to start, can enjoy privateĪnd end-to-end encrypted chats instead of the exposed threads that are Provide goes a long way to help disguise their malice. Their entire messaging history can be viewed, any response to the
Telegram’s hosted chat groups, known as ‘channels’, can be used toīroadcast messages to an unlimited number of subscribers, and, while As a result, some of its hosted chat groups have becomeĪ useful alternative to the secretive forums on the Dark Web. What sets it apart, among otherįeatures, however, is the pride it places on its enhanced securityĬapabilities. Similar to WhatsApp, Telegram users can chat to Users in just 24 hours) following a server crash on the WhatsApp In 2013, experienced a meteoric rise in subscribers (five million new Telegram, an encrypted instant-messaging application first introduced