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

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    10 months ago

    What a load of hipocrisy. The dude uses unauthenticated DH for his apps “secret chats”, which a bored student with a laptop can MITM in seconds. Other chats use just TLS, meaning they get to read EVERYTHING.

    Use Signal, people.

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      10 months ago

      which a bored student with a laptop can MITM in seconds

      No, how can a bored student breach e2ee in seconds? note that no such cases have been reported by any telegram user so far.

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        10 months ago

        Because the DH is unauthenticated, as I already said. Users can’t report it because there is no way to tell for them.

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          10 months ago

          Users can’t report it because there is no way to tell for them

          Atleast the one who breached can tell? no telegram users data have been seen on dark web yet, no person/org have claimed to get any vulnerability in their system. Also if its that easy to breach why govt’s keep banning telegram for not giving them userdata? despite telegram is the biggest app where most terrorist orgs operate, hub of piracy and illegal things, you can call it “public” darkweb.

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            10 months ago

            if its that easy to breach why govt’s keep banning telegram for not giving them userdata

            Same reason they ask Apple for backdoors even though they crack iPhones routinely. It’s about legal precedent.

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            10 months ago

            Check stories about russian journalists…

            I have some friends working in the police, many years they showed me how they can read messages of like anyone on telegram I was trying to tell people to stop using telegram for years, but now at least therecs some conversation is going on because of the journalists

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      10 months ago

      Signal is based in the United States, enjoy having CIA and NSA reading all your messages.