{"id":45021,"date":"2024-09-01T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=45021"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:38:29","slug":"telegram-the-dark-web-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2024\/09\/01\/telegram-the-dark-web-in-your-pocket.html","title":{"rendered":"Telegram: &#8216;The dark web in your pocket&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I keep Telegram installed for innocuous reasons. But any time someone I know appears on Telegram I try to warn them that nothing good ever happens on this platform. I don&#8217;t ask but I try to imagine what brought them there. Was it a dating app scammer? A Marine being held hostage in Afghanistan by ISIS (scam). What scam are they potentially being lured into? But I don&#8217;t ask. These are growed-ass adults. I just give a general warning, and accept being ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdey4prn3e1o\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/e472\/live\/c8a215e0-66c9-11ef-8c32-f3c2bc7494c6.png.webp?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdey4prn3e1o\">Telegram: &#8216;The dark web in your pocket&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep Telegram installed for innocuous reasons. But any time someone I know appears on Telegram I try to warn them that nothing good ever happens on this platform. I don&#8217;t ask but I try to imagine what brought them there. Was it a dating app scammer? A Marine being held hostage in Afghanistan by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/c8a215e0-66c9-11ef-8c32-f3c2bc7494c6.png1.webp?fit=480%2C882&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-bI9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45022,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45021\/revisions\/45022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}