Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.
It was a very funny joke.
They’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.
This is a play on people’s naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It’s just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn’t) and be confident that the back-end can’t be compromised (you can’t).
They do also have “secret chats” that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you’d be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.
Were you using it to catfish strangers via DM? If you weren’t, maybe they banned you for misuse of the platform.
The logo is from Marvel comics. Schmidt is a Nazi SS Obergruppenführer in charge of special weapons development; his division is known as Hydra and is the revival of an ancient cult. After a drug-induced mutation, Schmidt is known as the Red Skull.
Don’t ask me any more questions, though; I’ll have already forgotten everything I just read!
Let’s hope it never meets the emotional support cat-in-shining-armor.
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!
It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”
It’s Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.
You’re not alone. I went in expecting it to be high-quality based on comments similar to the above, then adjusted my sights for trite but entertaining, then realized I was only even entertained when John Noble was on screen (and to be fair, his performance was very fun).
I do recognize that it broke new ground and wasn’t as cliché when it originally aired, but it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t just as hammy.