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Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media]
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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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If I give my Discord chats to Beeper, and authorities subpoena Beeper, will the authorities get my Discord chats?
Theoretically no, all of your messages stored on Beeper servers are encrypted. But they will get all your metadata.
But I wouldn't worry about that anyway since Discord not only has access to all of your messages but sells them to companies to process for AI. So that'd be the far easier and faster route for them.
I feel like introducing another attack surface for a minimal gain inconvenience just isn't worth it. I'll be passing, thanks
If I'm honest, it's not convenient either. I stopped using it years ago because I kept getting logged out of my accounts and flagged for "automated activity". Plus they straight up lie about supporting SMS and RCS. The only "support" they have is connecting it to your Google account.
Yes they would. Thats why Beeper is working on changing to a bridge setup that works client-side and not server-side. Remember, that Discord is not encrypted and authorities can just get your data from discord directly. Do not use discord in any sort of private context whatsoever. I don't believe Discord itself isn't actively using my messaging data anyways