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  • Defensive munition shortages to shape any US attack on Iran. US and Israel burned through interceptors at an unprecedented rate during last year’s 12-day war.

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  • Naturally, we'll have to wait a bit to see what actually happens. All we can do in the meantime is go by past experience. I think Ukraine is very illustrative here, and we can also look at Yemen and how that played out. My impression is that the US made another blunder, but obviously I can't know that for sure right now.

  • Europe doesn't condemn Israeli aggression

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  • After screeching for 4 years straight about Russia's unprovoked all out invasion, that's certainly an interesting position to take.

  • UK regime joins the unprovoked war of aggression against Iran

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  • orly?

    Our forces are active and British planes are in the sky today as part of coordinated regional defensive operations to protect our people, our interests, and our allies - as Britain has done before, in line with international law.

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    Iran's revolutionary guards tell ships passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed'

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/irans-revolutionary-guards-tell-ships-passage-through-strait-hormuz-not-allowed-2026-02-28/
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    Footage Contradicts DHS Claim That It Dropped Blind Rohingya Refugee at 'Safe Location' in Buffalo

    www.commondreams.org /news/buffalo-border-patrol
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    UK regime joins the unprovoked war of aggression against Iran

    www.gov.uk /government/speeches/pm-statement-on-iran-28-february-2026

  • Defensive munition shortages to shape any US attack on Iran. US and Israel burned through interceptors at an unprecedented rate during last year’s 12-day war.

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  • The other, and more likely scenario is that Israel pushed the US into this war despite the US not being well equipped for it. This whole idea that the US is playing 4D chess is a really unlikely scenario in my opinion. Just look at Ukraine, plenty of people predicted that it would be a disaster, but the US decided to dive into it anyways. There was no master plan there. They had a hare brained scheme to try and crush Russia's economy, and when it predictably failed, they had no idea what to do after. I expect this will play out much the same way.

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    Iran Retaliates Against All US Targets

    glenndiesen.substack.com /p/iran-retaliates-against-all-us-targets
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    At least 40 killed in Israeli strike on girls’ school in southern Iran

    www.aa.com.tr /en/middle-east/at-least-40-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-girls-school-in-southern-iran/3843253
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    Defensive munition shortages to shape any US attack on Iran. US and Israel burned through interceptors at an unprecedented rate during last year’s 12-day war.

    www.ft.com /content/c2cfb9e5-9ef7-4448-a5a1-414c996d7093
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    Iran retaliates against multiple U.S. military facilities in Middle East

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • I don't think we're saying anything new here. I've explained my point and the problem with Signal collecting phone numbers. You can make your own decisions on whether you think that's acceptable practice or not.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Except you have no idea what's actually running on the server. Only people who operate it know.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Citation for what exactly? Go read up on how networking works, entire textbooks are available. The server has access to all the data the client sends it. How do you think you get paired with another person to chat, by magic?

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • No, I don't think we live in an ideal world. I repeatedly said you ultimately have to use the platform that your contacts use. I'm merely pointing out that you should understand the trade offs.

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    Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency across country

    www.cnn.com /2026/02/28/middleeast/israel-attack-iran-intl-hnk
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    Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

    phys.org /news/2026-02-carbon-dioxide-human-blood.html

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • It's not really a partial solution, it's just sophistry to obscure the problem. The fact that I've had this same discussion with many people now, and it always takes effort to explain why sealed sender doesn't actually address the problem leads me to believe the the actual problem it's solving is not of making the platform more secure. The complete and obvious solution to the problem is to not collect personally identifying information in the first place.

    You have a very charitable view of Signal making the base assumption that people running it are good actors. Yet, given that it has direct ties to the US government, that it's operated in the US on a central server, and the team won't even release the app outside proprietary platforms, that base assumption does not seem well founded to me. I do not trust the people operating this service, and I think it's a very dangerous assumption to think that they have your best interests in mind.

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    Trump Faces 2,000 Tariff Lawsuits Following Supreme Court Loss

    finance.yahoo.com /news/trump-faces-2-000-tariff-161014215.html

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • I also find it really weird how aggressively Signal is being pushed everywhere, and how any criticism of it gets dismissed or ridiculed. It feels a bit like a cult at this point.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Sure, you can absolutely decide that it's a reasonable trade off, but your original claim was that sealed sender addressed the problem. Sounds like you're now acknowledging that's not actually the case..

  • Living in western society

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  • That's precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Again, I think people should be aware that there are alternatives to Signal, and be able to make an informed decision on the trade offs that matter to them. My personal view is that there are absolutely better platforms than Signal, but if people understand the potential risks with Signal and use it because it's convenient or their other contacts use it, etc., that's entirely up to them. It's just not what I would personally recommend if people want privacy.

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  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Again, sealed sender has nothing to do with it. If I run a server, I have access to the raw requests coming in. I can do whatever I want with them even outside Signal protocol. You can't verify that my server is set up to work the way I say it is. You get that right?

    You're confusing what Signal team says their server does, and the open source server implementation they released with what's actually running. The latter, you have no idea about.

    The core issue is trusting the physical infrastructure rather than just the cryptography. The protocol design for sealed sender assumes the server behaves exactly as the published open source code dictates. A malicious operator can simply run modified server software that entirely ignores those privacy protections. Even if the cryptographic payload lacks a sender ID, the server still receives the raw network request and all the metadata attached to it. Your client has to talk to the server and identify itself before any messages are even sent.

    When your device connects to send that sealed message, it inevitably reveals your IP address and connection timing to the server. The server also knows your IP address from when you initially registered your phone number or when you requested those temporary rate limiting tokens. By logging the raw incoming requests at the network level, a malicious server can easily correlate the IP address sending the sealed message with the IP address tied to the phone number.

    Since the server must know the destination to route the message, it just links your incoming IP address to the recipient ID. Over time this builds a complete social graph of who is talking to whom. The cryptographic token merely proves you are allowed to send a message without explicitly stating who you are inside the payload. It does absolutely nothing to hide the metadata of the network connection itself from the machine receiving the data.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • but in that chain what you really care about is your phone number that identifies you in the real world to your messages, right?

    It doesn't matter, what matters is that the server has a unique id for you and the person you're talking to, and that id can then be mapped to the phone number that was initially collected. That's all the server needs to identify the real identity of the people you communicate with.

    It's not a question of what the server needs minimally, it's a question of what the server could be doing if it was set up maliciously. The sealed sender does not solve this problem in any way shape of form.

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Again, nowhere did I talk about message history. What I'm talking about the server having unique ids for each user, which is how it connects users to each other, and having a phone number collected initially which can be tied to that id. You don't need anything from the messages themselves to create a graph of people who talk to each other. The routing is done by the server.

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    The FBI’s New York office was reportedly hacked on the night of the Super Bowl in 2023, leading to the deletion of approximately 100 terabytes of evidence data tied to the Epstein files

    www.justice.gov /epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00173569.pdf

  • Pentagon shoots down US Customs and Border Protection drone with laser system, lawmakers say

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  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Again, the only people who actually know what the phone number is used for are the people who operate the server. I don't know why this is such a difficult concept for people to grasp. They don't need the information contained in the messages. Once the phone number is collected, it CAN be stored and associated with your account. There is no way for you to know whether that happens or not unless you have access to that server. There is no way for you to verify that the server does what people operating it say it does. That's what makes it a trust based system.

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  • Living in western society

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  • You just gotta love the narcissism these people have.

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    Pentagon shoots down US Customs and Border Protection drone with laser system, lawmakers say

    www.cnn.com /2026/02/26/us/pentagon-shoots-down-cbp-drone
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    Lancet: Israel massacred far more Palestinians than anyone could imagine

    www.newarab.com /opinion/israel-massacred-far-more-palestinians-anyone-could-imagine
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    Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies

    news.gallup.com /poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead-americans-middle-east-sympathies.aspx
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    68 percent disagree with Trump claims economy is ‘booming’: Survey

    thehill.com /homenews/administration/5758606-donald-trump-economy-claims-survey/
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    China suspends some agricultural tariffs on Canada after Carney visit

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/china-suspends-some-agricultural-tariffs-canada-after-carney-visit-2026-02-27/
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    China suspends some agricultural tariffs on Canada after Carney visit

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/china-suspends-some-agricultural-tariffs-canada-after-carney-visit-2026-02-27/