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Oct 6, 2015 · Information Security

How Pavel Durov Built Telegram: A Security‑First Messaging Platform

The article chronicles Pavel Durov’s journey from creating Russia’s VK social network to founding Telegram, highlighting his libertarian philosophy, clashes with authorities, and the technical design choices—such as the open‑source MTProto protocol, privacy focus, zero‑ads policy, and high performance—that make Telegram a unique secure messaging service.

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How Pavel Durov Built Telegram: A Security‑First Messaging Platform

21CTO

Sep 12, 2015 · Information Security

How Browser Fingerprinting Works and How to Defend Against It

This article explains the many data points browsers expose—such as IP, cookies, language, hardware, and HTML5 APIs—that enable device fingerprinting, describes how fingerprinting scripts operate, and outlines practical countermeasures like disabling JavaScript, using privacy extensions, and configuring browser settings.

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How Browser Fingerprinting Works and How to Defend Against It

Baidu Tech Salon

Oct 16, 2014 · Information Security

Editor's Note: The websites you visit write Cookies to your browser...

With third‑party cookies dying, Facebook, Google, and Apple are replacing them by leveraging their own login ecosystems—Facebook’s SSO and Atlas platform, Google’s Ad ID across Android and services, and Apple’s IDFA tied to Apple IDs—while third‑party data firms supplement detail, and users can still disable most tracking.

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Editor's Note: The websites you visit write Cookies to your browser...