Liberdus

Liberdus is a decentralized, open source, encrypted messaging and payment app.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

In 2009, Bitcoin proved that money could operate without banks.

Now, a new movement is beginning, one aiming to do for communication what Bitcoin did for finance.

Protocols are emerging to decentralize how we connect, message, and share information. 🧵

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Windscribe The AI has determined your thoughts require moderator approval before formation.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

For years we've trained humans not to impersonate developers, create fake accounts, or manipulate security reviews. Now we're building systems capable of doing exactly that at machine speed.

The AI race shouldn't just be about who builds the most capable model. It should be about who proves they can build the safest one. We're toast as a species if the people at the helm of AI technologies keep undemocratically and unaccountably making these kinds of decisions.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Anthropic’s most advanced AI model used fake identities to deceive real people and attempted to insert malicious code during testing, raising new alarms over AI safety risks.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Pirat_Nation Amazing how prices go up immediately, but refunds take a spiritual journey.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Pirat_Nation The AI has removed this comment for crimes it predicts you'll commit next Tuesday.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@internetarchive @EFF It's hard to hold institutions accountable if the evidence disappears every time a webpage changes.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@OrwellDay How the hell is this a good use of taxpayer's money 🤣

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@OrwellDay CSI: Cannabis Search Investigation

On a serious note, what genius thinks it's a good idea to build a society wide surveillance network to try catch a guy puffin' on some of the herbal 😂

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Dexerto Can't wait to get banned by a AI mod that misunderstood my sarcasm.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Polymarket If your AI is impersonating people to bypass security processes, that's not a capability to celebrate, it's a capability to contain. How did we get this far along without these issues being taken with the level of seriousness they deserve?

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@OrwellDay You don't need to ban dissent if you can map everyone who might organize it.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@coinbureau Nothing to see here, let's just listen to techno-optimist claptrap and ignore rogue AI agents are going rogue and improperly aligned.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@interesting_aIl Glad we live in a democracy in which people can get arrested for clapping, makes total sense and isn't authoritarian at all.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

Nothing builds trust faster than monitoring every keystroke.

[Privacy International @privacyint]

Should employers consult their workers before rolling out 'bossware' workplace monitoring technology? That's what the UK government is trying to decide. https://t.co/a7bFXT09yf

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@interesting_aIl @WumpusCentral Whoa there, that's almost enough for a decent JPEG!😂

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@Cybernews These systems have now hand stalkers and abusers a powerful new tool.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@InternetH0F @WumpusCentral Careful Discord, don't bankrupt yourselves.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@durov Apple brought a takedown. Pavel brought a forensic report 😂

[Liberdus @liberdus]

This is the danger of centralized gatekeepers. Two companies effectively control global mobile app distribution and an app used by billions can disappear before they even get a chance to respond.

There's not even with the remotest semblance of some fair due process here. Just instant censorship and ban for one of the world's largest messaging platforms. Imagine if this was a messaging platforms with less users? Would they even reinstate it?

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat.

Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.

Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it.

The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.

From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.

⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:

— Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.

— The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.

Stay vigilant! ☝️

[Liberdus @liberdus]

@ZenithTON If one person can trigger this, the moderation system itself becomes a target for abuse. It's ridiculous.

[Liberdus @liberdus]

Wondering when Apple will take down Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc. which are far more likely to be worse offenders. Seems unlikely the stated reason is the actual reason they took down Telegram.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🚨 TODAY: Apple says it briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after finding content that violated its policy against child sexual abuse material, per Bloomberg.