This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?

  • Clot@lemm.eeOP
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    10 months ago

    the fact that E2EE is opt-in already makes this app ridiculous

    in matter of privacy, yes. But it have cool features so.

    They’re stored in plain text on Telegram servers

    No, non secret chats use mptroto but with different schema, thats not plain servers. And no data breach have been reported in telegram yet if it was “that” easy to breach them. From my last comment: “Also the research you shared is based on mtproto 1.0 which telegram abandoned almost a decade ago and there have been No such defects found in mtproto 2 yet.”

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      10 months ago

      But it have [sic!] cool features so.

      So what? If minimum requirements are not given, it can be as cool as possible. Only not so smart people think that’s a good deal.