I wanted to know if there was a way for someone report illegal Delta Chat links made for the sharing of illegal pornographic material?
You can report the user to the email/chatmail provider admins (the provider is the part after the @ sign in the email address) and the illegal file links to the filehoster’s abuse email. If you know information about the user you can also report them to the police.
In mailinglists you can report abuse to the mailing list admin.
If you are asking this because of a concrete case you can contact delta@merlinux.eu and we can find out what you can do in your concrete case.
Note that the Delta Chat is just an email client, so we do not control any user data nor communication. But we can help you to find out what you can do in your case - Like where in the app to see the email address and how to find out how to reach the providers abuse contact.
If you mean i.delta.chat links, then you can also find the email address in them.
For example in this invite link
https://i.delta.chat/#C3C0C624BB8FE622905B8BD349E3E1236628065D&a=c8chhzwqp%40nine.testrun.org&n=illegal%20account&i=RMySZpxkmSn4LQiii-SisMXg&s=58ulOOr0IZ8ObKs614-umHol
then the email address is c8chhzwqp%40nine.testrun.org (%40 is an encoded @ symbol) which means the server is nine.testrun.org. So you need to contact the admins nine.testrun.org to report the abusive account. You can find the contact information when you visit the providers home page.
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Speaking of https://i.delta.chat/, it is a single-page static website with a page that can help create and display links in a browser, but i.delta.chat server does not store any links and links work in Delta Chat even if i.delta.chat website is down. Delta Chat clients don’t even contact i.delta.chat server internally. So reporting “illegal Delta Chat links” to i.delta.chat operators does not make much sense, even if the whole i.delta.chat is down the link will still work as the link just encodes the email address of the group inviter, their key fingerprint and random ID of the group.
Delta Chat is not designed for public chats, so groups are not discoverable from within Delta Chat and this link has to be distributed somewhere. If you see such links to groups distributed in social media or some other public forum, it makes more sense to report the link and its distributor to the moderation of that platform.
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there is no way to report links because invite links are not in any server, they are local and handled offline, even if you open it in the browser the Delta Chat page has no access to it, and even then, generating a new link is trivial, and every member of the group can also generate links, you don’t need to report anything, just ignore the group or if you get added to it you can kick out every member to annoy them, but ultimately it is just a private group, you can’t control what people do in private and they can always just create a new group and don’t share the new link with you
if the content is illegal, the only thing you could do is try to talk with the members and get some information from them that could help you report them to your local authorities if they are also from your country, but normally it is really hard to identify users in Delta Chat because they can use random addresses, you could report the address to the chatmail owner but creating a new account is trivial, or switching to a new chatmail server as well
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I don’t recommend doing your own investigations on illegal activity, chatting with criminals etc. If you somehow end up in a private contact with criminals, better avoid engaging with them further.
If you see criminals distributing the links in public, report them to authorities responsible for the public space.
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