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Telegram restricts access to Hamas channels on Google, Apple stores (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has quietly restricted access to several channels affiliated with the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

Hamas’s official account, the account of its armed wing the Qassam Brigades, and the news account Gaza Now have not been accessible on versions of Telegram downloaded from Google Play or Apple’s App Store since last week.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is encryped unlike SMS for example, it's just not E2E encrypted

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Well which messenger uses completely unencrypted communication?

Encrypted messaging kinda means E2E these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At this point any web service is encrypted because it uses https then. Technivamly true but as everyone is doing it it doesn't mean anything anymore, so the meaning has changed to mean E2E encrypted.