How to hide the fact that I'm Qubes OS from Telegram

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This is me checking things out on a disposable Whonix Workstation 17:

[workstation user ~]% timedatectl 
               Local time: Sun 2024-02-11 21:38:13 UTC
           Universal time: Sun 2024-02-11 21:38:13 UTC
                 RTC time: n/a
                Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: n/a
          RTC in local TZ: no
[workstation user ~]% qubesdb-read /qubes-timezone
Europe/Warsaw

Europe/Warsaw is configured as my dom0 timezone. Any disposable can read it.

Yes - only those that I’m aware of.

The easiest way of testing things out was to run pafish on a disposable Fedora 38. Let’s see:

[pafish] Start
[pafish] Windows version: 6.2 build 9200 (native)
[pafish] CPU: GenuineIntel (HV: XenVMMXenVMM) Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz
[pafish] CPU VM traced by checking the difference between CPU timestamp counters (rdtsc) forcing VM exit
[pafish] CPU VM traced by checking hypervisor bit in cpuid feature bits
[pafish] CPU VM traced by checking cpuid hypervisor vendor for known VM vendors
[pafish] Sandbox traced by missing mouse movement
[pafish] Sandbox traced by missing mouse click activity
[pafish] Sandbox traced by missing double click activity
[pafish] Sandbox traced by missing dialog confirmation
[pafish] Sandbox traced by missing or implausible dialog confirmation
[pafish] Sandbox traced by checking disk size <= 60GB via GetDiskFreeSpaceExA()
[pafish] Sandbox traced by checking operating system uptime using GetTickCount()
[pafish] Wine traced using GetProcAddress(wine_get_unix_file_name) from kernel32.dll
[pafish] Wine traced using Reg key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Wine
[pafish] End

A better way of mitigating a repressive government is to use dedicated messengers for communication, like Cwtch or Tinfoil Chat, and rejecting comfort for security, both communication-wise and physical.

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