There's another Tolkien's notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don't lie and thus are hard to deceive.
The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me.
Perhaps Hegseth's approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien's characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.
Well, that something common in Russia as a metaphor is also common in Estonia wouldn't be a surprise, but in English seems a bit less common. Anyway, that wasn't the point of my comment.
As a source it's rude. As a piece of unreliable help of the kind "we both don't know the syntax of that programming language, let's ask Ollama how to draw such and such a shape in it" it's kinda fine.
You can run actual Windows in a hypervisor, and have all malware you want for everything inside that hypervisor, and also hypervisor escape is a thing if you have something like guest additions with access to host filesystem etc.
It's a thread about comparing Signal to Telegram of all things. In comparison to Signal as anything secure Telegram doesn't exist in any quality.
At the same time Signal doesn't have mass group chats and is not intended for that purpose.
The first link does count, it's a valid failure from Signal devs. Humans err.
The second link does not, it's an unofficial centralized aggregator, not from Signal devs, and the "hack" was a direct consequence of how it worked. It's absolutely something that no sane person would use.
There's a commonly used Russian metaphor "to not see the forest behind the trees".
What you are calling a device is in fact a system. It's a local system, that you are carrying in your hand, but it's functioning due to a very complex global system which is not. That device in itself is like a 1960s' town in complexity. In itself, but there's also the global system.
And these are a result of quite a lot of people employed by various organizations with hierarchies and dependencies. And most of the power in those organizations doesn't want you to have privacy and autonomy as much and when you want. If you want those, you should produce your own hardware and everything above it. Or build organizations interested in your full privacy and autonomy which will do that. It's about structure, so just creating a few of them (a goal hardly reachable in itself) with manifests saying "we want to be good" won't change anything.
So, if you were wondering why contemporaries of Stalin's regime were reluctant to divorce it with Marxism and call it something else, - that's similar to this. They really wanted to believe there's a Marxist superpower, just like some people wanted to believe Google is a good corporation, and before that some people wanted to believe Apple is a counterculture corporation, and so on. And, at various moments in time and space, in various dimensions, sometimes these were. Just like in some ways the British Empire was really bringing civilization to the world.
The more life and diversity there is, the likelier we are to have good things. That doesn't mean we'll ever have full privacy, full autonomy, fully civilized, peaceful and honorable world, and so on. We won't.
Telegram is used by Ukrainian armed forces for military actions, ruskie pests use it too for the same… so its probably hard to hack, as these REALLY want to see the messages of each other…
You see, these arguments are just impolite when made against the man in the post going out of his way to provide you with an experiment based on logic that you don't need computer science knowledge to verify.
As far as I have heard, Ukrainian servicemen are forbidden to use Telegram. Ukrainian civilians do, and Ukrainian special services might do that sometimes perhaps.
It has a soft flavor. I don't put it into anything spicy, and probably won't be noticeable with the way Americans seem to do seasoning. But if I'm making a soup with some meat and potatoes and various vegetables, I'll put it in, it'll be noticeable.
If you just boil beef with and without it, you'll feel the difference the most, I think.
Industrial workers and in general employees of big companies subject to constant scrutiny can unionize more easily. So much of that is not due to politics other than moving industries abroad.
I've met people better than Hitler at speeches. That's not the only trait that affects whether you go up in power or down. But no less important is that they might have had different desires.
There is a technology called BLE, which together with mesh networking and synchronization of messages instead of routing them can give you connectivity in the middle of big events, without too much signal noise.
Of course other than Briar and that Bitchat thing I don't know what to use in such situations.
I know this is not the point of your comment, but which Georgia specifically is the right target to bomb?
The one in Caucasus is supposedly friendly, South Georgia is British property so allied land, and, eh, the remaining one is, as I understand, the always wrong one to bomb.
There's another Tolkien's notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don't lie and thus are hard to deceive.
The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me.
Perhaps Hegseth's approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien's characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.