Channel
@elcomsoft
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
553subscribers
+4 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001031668291 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @elcomsoft |
| Created | Between 1 February 2016 and 31 May 2016 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/elcomsoft |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Sept 2026, 06:00 | 553 | +1 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 16:58 | 552 | +1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 08:46 | 551 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 08:06 | 550 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 03:45 | 549 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 21:00 | 549 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 April 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
20 reactions across 10 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 8 | 40.0% | |
| 🔥 | 7 | 35.0% | |
| 👍 | 5 | 25.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 20 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 29 April 2026 to 5 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The iOS 27 Recovery Menu: What It Means for Forensics 👆 iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, currently in beta, add a bootable recovery menu to the iPhone and iPad. Hold the power button while the device starts up and you land in a small pre-boot environment with six options, one of which is the old “connect to computer” recovery mode. This is the same idea Apple silicon Macs have had for years, and it is overdue on the phone 📱 …
🆕Special macOS Firewall: Safe Sideloading of the EIFT Extraction Agent🆕 Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit begins low-level extraction by sideloading the extraction agent, and the agent will not run until the phone has completed one or two checks against Apple’s servers. Network requests, on a phone that is evidence. That single requirement is why we have shipped three different firewalls over the past three years. 💡Th…
When the iCloud Backup Is the Only Copy Left ☁️ An iCloud backup is often the only surviving copy of data no longer on the device. Two ordinary situations show why, and neither involves anything clever on the suspect’s part. What could possibly go wrong, and how can you access the data? ⏺Case one: the update that went wrong Updates fail, usually for a boring reason: not enough free space. iOS downloads the update…
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How to recover deleted data from your iPhone 👤 You accidentally deleted an important file from your iPhone, panicked, and hit the web looking for a way to get it back... Instantly, you’re hit with a barrage of search results pushing “iPhone data recovery” software. If you look closely, you’ll notice almost all of these apps are low-quality rebrands or slightly tweaked forks of just a handful of identical tools. ❓B…
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Why Digital Forensic Reports Don’t Survive Cross-Examination❓ A forensic report is not a summary of finished work. It’s a claim that has to survive someone trying to take it apart, and most reports aren’t built for that. A lot of what gets filed today is automated tool output with a cover letter attached: the examiner runs a parser, exports a spreadsheet, writes three sentences of narrative, and calls it analysis. …
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An AI agent broke into Hugging Face. Five days later, OpenAI said it was theirs 👩💻 On 16 July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed that an autonomous AI agent had been inside part of its production infrastructure. The company was clear about what it did not know: which model was driving the agent, or who was operating it. Five days later, OpenAI answered both questions. The agent was its own, running an internal benchmar…
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Digital Triage and the Rules of Evidence: What Holds Up, and Where👆 The scene is familiar. A couple of desktops, a laptop, two or three phones, maybe a NAS or a bunch of external drives, and a limited amount of time before you decide what you do on the spot and what can wait till the lab. You cannot image everything on the spot, and even if you could, the lab queue would swallow it for weeks. So you triage: you loo…
Cracking Legacy ZIP Encryption: The Known-Plaintext Attack and Why It Still Sometimes Works 🔒 When someone hands you a password-protected ZIP archive, one’s immediate thought is: “I need to break the password”. For most modern archives, that is exactly the case, and the password is the whole game. But there is a family of ZIP archives where the password does not matter at all. It can be four characters or forty, …
The Long, Strange History of PDF (In)Security – And the Arrest That Made It Personal👁🗨 PDF has a reputation as the boring, dependable file format – the one you reach for when you need a document to look exactly the same on every computer, forever. What gets forgotten is that PDF’s security model has been shaky since version 1.0, and its history includes an FBI arrest, a federal jury trial that helped define how the…
🆕Two-Factor Authentication and iCloud: A Short History, and What We Fixed in Phone Breaker 11.03🆕 Two-factor authentication is the least glamorous security feature, and probably the most important one. A password is “something you know”, which really means “something that can be phished, reused, leaked, or guessed”. The second factor is “something you have”, and, while it can still be phished, it makes stolen pass…
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Sideloading the extraction agent: a Stolen Device Protection workaround👤 A new update to iOS Forensic Toolkit is out. The headline feature is an alternative installation method for the extraction agent – that is, deploying it onto an iPhone while bypassing the mandatory pairing requirement. The agent can now be delivered across the network, which removes a number of limitations that came with the usual cable-based i…
🆕Bypassing Stolen Device Protection: Alternative Ways of Installing the Extraction Agent🆕 Stated plainly: iOS Forensic Toolkit can now get past Stolen Device Protection. There is a catch, and it belongs up front: this is not a magic unlock, and anyone selling it as one is selling something. 🔥What we have built is a way to install the extraction agent without ever pairing the iPhone to the workstation over a USB po…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @elcomsoft. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 10 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Elcomsoft” (@elcomsoft), 553 subscribers as measured 10 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/elcomsoft.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.