As we previously discussed about TELEGRAM and its unique features and also about its safety. Today in this blog we are going to discuss about it advantages and also disadvantages. Before moving further if you didn’t read our previous blog, please read it first to get basic knowledge of TELEGRAM.
Here is the link of previous blog :- https://fotugenicbabu.blogspot.com/2020/05/information-of%20-telegram%20-pp.html

Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Telegram

 At the moment the newest social network Telegram is in great demand, especially among people who believe that their messages should remain secure. As numerous media resources say, Telegram creates serious competition for everyone else, including VK and Facebook. They mean a number of advantages described in this article. In addition, you will also learn about the main disadvantages for making the right decision: install or refuse using it.
 
Contents:

• Advantages;

• Disadvantages;

• What are benefits of telegram over WhatsApp?

Advantages

Starting a conversation about the advantages and disadvantages let’s start from the key benefits including:

• In the first place Telegram takes care of your data security. As all the latest events show, it will not give out your IP or phone number in the ex-USSR countries. However, Pavel Durov recently created his own cryptocurrency, and being afraid to be blocked in Europe as well he agreed to the demands of the security forces. Telegram can still give out your data if there is a formal court decision, and only in European countries.

  Advantages of telegram

• Secondly, there are secret chats. They guarantee full confidentiality of messaging, since the information is not stored anywhere.

• Thirdly, there are several ways of making your messaging as invisible as possible. For example, a specific code or a special timer deleting the dialogs automatically.

• There are both mobile and desktop versions.

• There are also super chat rooms that can gather up to 5,000 people.

These were only the main advantages, but if we mention minor ones as well, the list will be much longer.

Disadvantages

So that you do not consider Telegram to be something supernatural among all other social networks, we have collected a number of its major flaws. These include:

disadvantages of telegram

• Binding to a phone number. This gives an opportunity to find out all your contacts information and send them to the server. The main problem is not just showing your contacts. In theory, almost any state security service is able to add all the telephone numbers in the country to their contacts. If you ask, why it is needed, the answer will be quite simple: this way you can find out what people are registered on the social network, and when they last visited it.

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• If the messages are sent via an ordinary, rather than a secret chat, then formally, they are not encrypted. No, you should not think that your provider is able to read any of your messages easily, because all the dialogues have a closed protocol. However, all messages are on a special Telegram server. When you re-enter your account, they go there.

• Telegram for PC version either has not been fully developed yet, or its development has stopped, as there are no secret chats in it. This feature is available exclusively on mobile devices.

• When you upload a new profile picture, the old one stays there as well. You have to delete it manually.

  Channels on telegram

 

What are benefits of telegram over WhatsApp?

Telegram's much better than WhatsApp

   ·  Truly Cross platform: Telegram has native apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Desktop, OS X, Linux, Firefox OS and a web version. WhatsApp is trying to catch up with their own WhatsApp Web, but it's seriously lacking in features - you can't edit your status or picture for starters, and Whatsapp Web only works with Android, Windows Phone, and a few Blackberry, Nokia models at the moment (no iOS).

    ·  Document sharing: You can share pretty much any sort of file on Telegram, not just photos and videos.

    ·   No limit for Photos/Videos: Speaking of sharing photos, you can only share 10(!) photos at a time on WhatsApp. On Telegram, there's no limit. Telegram also supports a maximum size of 1.5 GB for videos if I remember correctly.

Security settings in telegram

    ·    Usernames: You can set a @username so people can contact you without knowing your number.

    · Secret chats: On Telegram you can have end-to-end encrypted secret chats for maximum security. You can also set a self-destruct timer for messages .

    ·   Stickers: Don't tell me you wouldn't want a Nikola Tesla facepalm sticker! All of their stickers are free to use and you can make your own stickers if you want to. They also recently added support for 3rd party sticker sets.

large users base

·   Free: Telegram doesn't have any sort of fee, unlike WhatsApp. They're also non-profit.

·   Lots of innovative features: Integrated photo editor, GIF and image search directly from the app, group size of 200000(super group) .

·  Open API and clients: All official Telegram clients are open source. You can build your own version of Telegram if you want to.

features of channels on telegram

· Not owned by Facebook: Possibly the most important feature. Facebook isn't the nicest company around.

channel 1 is a movies channel here you get all types of movies 

: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFMOkW_TGn6uErAr-g

THANK YOU,

LUCIFER.

Telegram App

What is Telegram?

Telegram App

Telegram is an online messaging app that works just like popular messaging apps WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. This means that you can use it to send messages to your friends when connected to Wi-Fi or your mobile data. Telegram is cloud-based and claims that it prioritizes security and speed, making it a good alternative to other popular messaging apps. The service launched in 2013, and since then it has reached 200 million active monthly users.

Distinctive features

Founded by Russian Pavel Durov, who’s also behind Russia’s largest social network VKontakte (VK), Telegram claims to combine the speed of WhatApp with Snapchat’s ephemerality. Like WhatsApp, Telegram has also the ability to show a friend’s status online and attach and share photos, videos, location, contacts and documents.

welcome to telegram

Telegram’s distinctive feature is security. It claims that all its activities including chats, groups and media shared between participants, is encrypted. This means that they won’t be visible without being deciphered first. The app also lets you set self-destruct timers on messages and media that you share which can range from two seconds to one week through its built-in feature ‘Secret Chat’. It also offers end-to-end encryption, leaving no trace on Telegram’s servers.

There’s also the ability to check the security of your ‘Secret Chats’ using an image that serves as an encryption key. By comparing your encryption key to a friend’s, you can effectively verify that your conversation is secure and less vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

How to use it

how to use telegram

Telegram can be used and installed just like other messaging apps. You can download it from Apple’s App Store or from Google’s Play Store – look for the paper airplane logo. After flipping through the welcome screen, you’ll be prompted to enter your phone number and then add your name and a picture. The next step is to find friends and start a chat.

The app can be used on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers. Telegram is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows NT, macOS and Linux.

Is Telegram secure?

Concerns about the security of Telegram were raised not long after its release.

By default, the app doesn’t encrypt end-to-end communications (e.g., between your phone and the person’s phone you are chatting with). You have to manually enable this feature, called Secret Chat. Otherwise, your chats will be saved on Telegram’s servers, which are in various locations throughout the world. The communication between the client (i.e., your phone or other device) and Telegram’s servers is encrypted, and your chat data stored on these servers is encrypted, supposedly.

The Telegram developers emphasize this is so that you can recover your chats should you lose your phone or other device. But why is letting your chat data be stored on their servers not offered as an opt-in, and encrypted end-to-end chatting not set as the default? Keeping your chat data stored on these servers has to be an expense for their non-profit company.

Encryption key

Experts in the encryption field have also questioned why Telegram uses a homegrown encryption protocol, called MTProto, when there are other freely available encryption protocols that have proven to be effective … and that have been vetted by independent experts.

(The Telegram website has available for download the purported source code for the desktop and mobile app versions of Telegram. The Telegram developers say this code allows researchers to evaluate the messenger’s encryption protocol.)

Why (and how) Russia blocked Telegram

The Russian government security agency, the Federal Security Service, ordered Telegram’s developers to turn over the encryption keysfor Telegram’s MTProto protocol to them by April 4, 2018. Pavel Durov refused to comply. According to him, there were about 15 million users of Telegram in Russia.

The Russian Supreme Court then ordered Telegram banned in the country. Roskomnadzor (Russia’s equivalent of the U.S. FCC) ordered Russian ISPs to block the app. As of May 8, 2018, this has resulted in these ISPs blocking more than 10 million IP addresses. This blocklist was so high to prevent a workaround — domain fronting — from working through Telegram.

Telegram in Russia

Generally speaking, domain fronting enables an app to connect to a blocked domain by appearing to connect to another domain that hasn’t been blocked. It is an unintended feature that has been exploited as a security flaw.

Amazon and Google disabled domain fronting from their services in April 2018 after the Russian ban on Telegram. It was reported they did so partly due to request by the Russian government.

 

Telegram vs. WhatsApp: Secure messaging alternatives

Secure messengers other than Telegram include Signal, WhatsApp and Wire. The most popular is WhatsApp, with 1.5 billion users.

Telegram vs Whatsapp

In contrast to Telegram, all of these have encrypted end-to-end communications turned on by default. So your chat data is stored, and encrypted, only on your phone or other device that you’re chatting from, and not on a server. They use the Signal Protocol (developed by the Signal messenger developers), which has been approved by encryption experts and is available for the public to evaluate and freely use.

Thank you,

Lucifer.

 

A Trip to Heart of India

Welcome to our series of travel blog “A Trip to Heart of India”. In previous part I have discussed about how nature welcome me on my arrival at “Madhya Pradesh”. As I mentioned earlier that how rain welcomes me and my friends , how a full rainbow shows heaven on earth , how a train journey teaches me a life lesson .Today in this article I want to say something about our nature , I have some photographs which you will rarely see in metro cities or it is right to say that you will never see that kind of nature around you in metro cities . 

Started with a famous quote:

Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books.  Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.  

A beautiful village (MP, INDIA)

Nature and Us

Have you ever been awed by the beauty of a mountain or ocean? Have you ever been excited to see a wild animal in its natural habitat? Have you ever stopped to admire a lovely flower or tree? If so, you will understand how nature can impact our well being.

By nature, we mean the natural world and the nested ecosystems within it. This is the “non-built” world of water, air, earth, vegetation, and animals. Humans are part of nature and interact constantly with it in many ways—on the molecular and the larger systems level.

This interaction is deeply beneficial to humans, especially with the growing prevalence of depression caused by “nature deprivation,” which is largely due to increasing time spent in front of televisions and computers. Apart from meeting some of our most basic needs, nature relaxes and refreshes us.

If you hurt nature, you are hurting yourself

What is nature? There is a great deal of talk and endeavour to protect nature, the animals, the birds, the whales and dolphins, to clean the polluted rivers, lakes, fields and so on. Nature is not put together by thought, as religion and belief are. Nature is the tiger, that extraordinary animal with its energy, its great sense of power. Nature is the solitary tree in the field, the meadows and the grove; it is that squirrel shyly hiding behind a bough. Nature is the ant, the bee and all the living things of the earth. Nature is the river, not a particular river, whether the Ganga, the Thames or the Mississippi. Nature is those mountains, snow-clad, with dark blue valleys and range of hills meeting the sea. The universe is part of nature. One must have a feeling for all this, not destroy it, not kill for one’s pleasure or one’s table. We do kill cabbages, the vegetables we eat, but one must draw the line somewhere. If you do not eat vegetables, how will you live? So one must intelligently discern.

Nature and Us

Nature is part of our life. We grew out of the seed, the earth, and we are part of all that, but we are rapidly losing the sense that we are animals like the others. Can you have a feeling for a tree, look at it, see the beauty of it, listen to the sound it makes? Can you be sensitive to the little plant, a little weed, to that creeper growing up the wall, to the light on the leaves and the many shadows? One must be aware of all this and have that sense of communion with nature around you. You may live in a town, but you do have trees here and there. A flower in the next garden may be ill-kept, crowded with weeds, but look at it, feel that you are part of all that, part of all living things. If you hurt nature, you are hurting yourself.

One knows all this has been said before in different ways, but we don’t seem to pay much attention. Is it that we are so caught up in our own network of problems, our desires, our urges of pleasure and pain that we never look around, never watch the moon? Watch it. Watch with all your eyes and ears, your sense of smell. Watch. Look as though you are looking for the first time. If you can do that, you see for the first time that tree, bush or blade of grass. Then you can see your teacher, your mother or father, your brother or sister, for the first time. There is an extraordinary feeling about that: the wonder, the strangeness, the miracle of a fresh morning that has never been before and never will be.

Be in communion with nature, not verbally caught in the description of it, but be a part of it, be aware, feel that you belong to all that, be able to have love for all that, to admire a deer, the lizard on the wall, that broken branch lying on the ground. Look at the evening star or the new moon without the word, without merely saying how beautiful it is and turning your back on it, attracted by something else, but watch that single star and new delicate moon as though for the first time. If there is such communion between you and nature, you can commune with man, with the boy sitting next to you, with your educator or with your parents. We have lost all sense of relationship in which there is not only a verbal statement of affection and concern but also this sense of communion, which is not verbal. It is a sense that we are all together, that we are all human beings, not divided, not broken up, not belonging to any group or race or some idealistic concepts, but that we are all human beings, living on this extraordinary, beautiful earth.

Nature and Us

Have you ever woken up in the morning and looked out of the window, or gone out on the terrace and looked at the trees and the spring dawn? Live with it. Listen to all the sounds, to the whisper, the slight breeze among the leaves. See the light on that leaf and watch the sun coming over the hill, over the meadow. And the dry river, or that animal grazing and those sheep across the hill, watch them. Look at them with a sense of affection and care, that you do not want to hurt a thing. When you have such communion with nature, your relationship with another becomes simple, clear, without conflict.

Thank you,

Lucifer,
Part -4,
A Trip to Heart of India.

Worlds Best Laptop Brands In 2020

What are laptops ?

A laptop is a computer which is easy to carry around. Its user can fold the laptop along its hinge for carrying. The laptop was created mainly for this particular reason. Computer parts were scaled to smaller size so this could happen. A modern laptop is self-contained, with built-in rechargeable battery and peripheral equipment.  The user can also plug it in, for longer battery life and additional peripherals.

Laptops have advantages such as:

v  People can carry them anywhere, whether office or home.

v  They can be used in a smaller space than a desk computer.

Laptop's

 
Disadvantages of portable computers include:

v  Price is higher

v  Easily stolen

v  They can be used in a car, resulting in distracted driving

v  They travel frequently, thus can be damaged, and repairs are more difficult

v  Some laptops have usually low technical specifications and are available in low prices.

v  They are often slower than desktop computers with heavy tasks like gaming, video editing or graphic design

To survive in today's world, a laptop is pretty much a necessity. Whether you're a contractor using a 2-in-1 to show off floor plans,or a college students who needs a chromebook for class, they make life much more manageable in terms of keeping track of your goals and getting things done. 

At first glance, that's not an easy question to answer. Since there are laptops capable of doing everything you could want or need, it almost seems impossible to find "the one." It can be even more difficult when trying to separate these devices by brand, and trying to find out what advantages some companies offer over others.

But with all the different big-name brands like Apple, Dell, and Microsoft offering every type of laptop you could possibly imagine, the waters can get a little muddy when it comes to choosing the right one for you. 

Best Laptops brands in 2020 

1.     Dell

Dell Laptops

Whether it's space-grade heating materials or unrivaled settings customization, Dell continues to push laptop boundaries.

Ø  Popular line: Inspiron

Ø  Chromebooks available: Yes

Ø  2-in-1s available: Yes

2.     Microsoft

Microsoft Laptops

Microsoft's selection of 2-in-1s take a "best of both worlds" approach to laptops, and offers a great alternative to both MacBooks and iPads.

·        Popular line: Surface

·        Chromebooks available: No

2-in-1s available: Yes

3.     Lenovo

Lenovo Laptops

While you wouldn't think it, Lenovo is the brand to check out if you're looking for some of the best-reviewed laptops out there.

·        Popular line: ThinkPad

·        Chromebooks available: No

·        2-in-1s available: Yes

4.     Apple

Apple Laptops

Apple doesn't just offer premium laptops — their premium customer service ensures that those who buy a MacBook will have it for years to come.

·        Popular line: MacBook

·        Chromebooks available: No

·        2-in-1s available: No

5.     Razor

Razor Laptops

When it comes to PC gaming, Razer is a premiere name, offering premium laptops in a thin body without sacrificing power.

·        Popular line: Blade

·        Chromebooks available: No

·        2-in-1s available: No

·        Available at: Amazon, Best Buy

6.     Asus

Asus Laptops

Whether it's the durability of the affordable Chromebooks, or the extra cooling on the Zephyrus, Asus' body design is second to none.

·        Popular line: VivoBook

·        Chromebooks available: Yes

·        2-in-1s available: Yes

7.     Acer

Acer Laptops

If variety is the spice of life, then Acer is as spicy as it gets thanks to their selection of laptops.

·        Popular line: E series

·        Chromebooks available: Yes

·        2-in-1s: Yes

8.     HP

HP Laptops

It may not be your first choice, but if quality customer service and an excellent 2-in-1 laptop line are important to you, don't sleep on HP in 2020.

·        Popular Line:  Spectre

·        Chromebooks available: Yes

·        2-in-1s available: Yes

-Lucifer