Hm, makes sense, but I feel like we’re still missing something.

I saw comments about Durov, similar to this investigation, maybe around a month ago.

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With the xAI partnership news, I looked into it and found this nice thing:

• Tool to delete all your messages from chat/channel/ conversation on Telegram without requiring admin privileges - github.com/en9inerd/tgeraser

In Telegram, you can clear them one by one, or date ranges, or use disappearing messages, but this tool still found some I had missed.

(Disclaimer: I got pulled into Telegram by some friends leaving WhatsApp with the policy changes of 2021, my threat model is less one of FSB, and more one of indiscriminate AI siphoning for ad targeting)