That press releases is to scare the shit out of normies, to let them have a "reaction" like "omg telegram is full of criminals, I will not use such app, gov will put me in jail if I use it..."

The matter of fact: nothing is safe and secure when you use internet. So you should be a nym on internet, separate from your real life.

So get a life and don't give a shit about anything a gov says or do.

Privacy, first of all, it means to have a separate "online" life than your personal private life. Anything you do on internet is considered public.

if a gov agency will come to my door I will ask "nicely" if they can prove that I am the darthcoin online. 😂😂 A living man cannot be a virtual identity. But that is another story... people nowadays do not know WHO they are.

My advice:

Proxys for telegram TG works perfectly fine behind Tor proxy or many other proxies.

here is a list, to use with telegram and your IP will never be leaked

People nowadays are so chicken shit that you cannot imagine... but they have no fucking idea what is public and private and how to use internet...