I know what the inference is here: give me your back doors, encryption is only for evil people.
However you could say the same for electricity, GPS, phones, guns etc.
"Telegram itself suggests it will take down illegal material"
What does illegal material mean? I guess Germany has lesser free speech than the US, but still it's a messaging service after all.
I wonder were Twitter draw the line. They outright welcome many state actors that rival IS if not in scale at least in means. Maybe the line is drawn for them by some friends from the state department?
I didn't think group messages on Telegram had any special security.
If this isn't proof that Twitter's business model is doomed then I don't know what is. It would be like the Taliban announcing they'll no longer use Toyotas.
The US government allows the Isalmic State to exist, from providing them training, Toyota trucks + enabling the "black market" sales of oil
all this is mostly fear mongering
Do they know Telegram is not encrypted E2E by default?
Rather convenient that this news comes out at the same time that Obama says he won't ask for keys to encrypted data.
Could we stop propagating them? There is no 'state', it is just part of desert with bandits in pickups. And BBC should not give hints where to find latest propaganda. It is like reporting 'piratebay.com' domain is down, use 'piratebay.xyz'
No. Nope. Not true. Mostly, anyway.
Follow https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar, look at some of the links from Twitter and click around a bit and you'll find plenty of IS sympathisers.
However, Twitter is fairly active in shutting them down nowdays. What most do is keep a Tumblr with a link to their Twitter account, and link their Tumblr from Twitter. Then when one shuts down they can reestablish from the other.
I'd be surprised if IS aren't using Telegram though. They are pretty active on every other social platform.