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Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, April 13th, 2018. Today, is telegram the new piracy

refuge? Police departments apparently have a device that can unlock iPhones. Chinese cops use facial recognition to

literally pick criminals out of crowds. More leaks of upcoming Gmail features,

the weekend long reads suggestions and how Instagram might be making poetry

popular again. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Over at the outline Manish Singh is reporting on the instant messaging app

Telegram which is a favorite of journalists and activists because of its end-to-end

encryption features and its secret chat channels.

It seems that increasingly, telegrams more than 200 million users are trading

pirated files of movies, music, and other stuff on those secret

chat channels.

Interestingly, the outline discovered that one of the more popular markets is for stolen

logging credentials for sites like Netflix, Spotify, Hulu,

at all. This is because telegram users can create channels which they can administer on their

own and set their own rules for.

Some channels have more than 100,000 members

and many of them are devoted to things like file sharing.

I think people love the simplicity of telegram.

It's akin to the 1992,000's websites when internet was really

a freedom island for all, one Russian-based telegram user told Singh. Quoting from the piece,

instead of linking to annoying ad filled file sharing websites

or asking users to install additional software,

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