🇲🇩☮️🇲🇩 Moldovan president, Maia Sandu, reiterated her goal of reintegrating the Transnistrian region into Moldova, in a peaceful manner, before Moldova enters the EU.
She says that this is her big "ideal" but that a lot depends on other factors.
Sandu is aware of the situation Cyprus is in. Similarly, Cyprus is split in half with the northern half being occupied by the Turkish army who created a rump state. The southern half entered the EU and enjoyed its added benefits but the EU who should be working to reunite Cyprus has done little to sanction Turkey in this regard.
In other words, if Moldova doesn't gain control over Transnistria before EU membership, it certainly won't be able to do so after. EU membership for Moldova will only solidify Transnistria's claim to statehood and will drive it apart further from the rest of Moldova. As the EU doesn't have a plan to reunite Cyprus, what are the chances that it will make one for Moldova? Also, the EU cannot accept countries with territorial disputes so, EU membership will irreversibly change Moldova's de-facto borders.
🇲🇩☮️🇲🇩 Moldovan president, Maia Sandu, reiterated her goal of reintegrating the Transnistrian region into Moldova, in a peaceful manner, before Moldova enters the EU.
She says that this is her big "ideal" but that a lot depends on other factors.
Sandu is aware of the situation Cyprus is in. Similarly, Cyprus is split in half with the northern half being occupied by the Turkish army who created a rump state. The southern half entered the EU and enjoyed its added benefits but the EU who should be working to reunite Cyprus has done little to sanction Turkey in this regard.
In other words, if Moldova doesn't gain control over Transnistria before EU membership, it certainly won't be able to do so after. EU membership for Moldova will only solidify Transnistria's claim to statehood and will drive it apart further from the rest of Moldova. As the EU doesn't have a plan to reunite Cyprus, what are the chances that it will make one for Moldova? Also, the EU cannot accept countries with territorial disputes so, EU membership will irreversibly change Moldova's de-facto borders.
Telegram auto-delete message, expiring invites, and more
elegram is updating its messaging app with options for auto-deleting messages, expiring invite links, and new unlimited groups, the company shared in a blog post. Much like Signal, Telegram received a burst of new users in the confusion over WhatsApp’s privacy policy and now the company is adopting features that were already part of its competitors’ apps, features which offer more security and privacy. Auto-deleting messages were already possible in Telegram’s encrypted Secret Chats, but this new update for iOS and Android adds the option to make messages disappear in any kind of chat. Auto-delete can be enabled inside of chats, and set to delete either 24 hours or seven days after messages are sent. Auto-delete won’t remove every message though; if a message was sent before the feature was turned on, it’ll stick around. Telegram’s competitors have had similar features: WhatsApp introduced a feature in 2020 and Signal has had disappearing messages since at least 2016.
What is Telegram?
Telegram’s stand out feature is its encryption scheme that keeps messages and media secure in transit. The scheme is known as MTProto and is based on 256-bit AES encryption, RSA encryption, and Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The result of this complicated and technical-sounding jargon? A messaging service that claims to keep your data safe.Why do we say claims? When dealing with security, you always want to leave room for scrutiny, and a few cryptography experts have criticized the system. Overall, any level of encryption is better than none, but a level of discretion should always be observed with any online connected system, even Telegram.
