• @catalog3115
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    7 months ago

    I am going to repeat what I have said for another similar post.

    I still stand for Signal App.

    • Telegram has no default E2EE, Telegram is run by for profit company
    • Multiple flaws were found in Telegram’s encryption algorithm
    • Almost all cleartext messages are stored on telegram server, but signal stores encrypted message temporarily
    • Signal is non-profit & all their source code + finances are public. Even their server codes are publically available
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      237 months ago

      Telegram is as safe as just using Facebook DMs (unencrypted), only it’s Russian.

      I suggest you judge for yourself how safe that is.

      • @JubilantJaguar
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        57 months ago

        Even if it were encrypted and the backdoor was controlled by the Russian state, logically that would make it safer than Facebook for anyone living in Western jurisdictions. The Russian government cannot get them and is hardly going to exchanging intelligence with its enemies.

        • @okamiueru
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          26 months ago

          To what extent is it Russian?

        • @[email protected]
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          Even if it were encrypted

          It’s not.

          logically that would make it safer than Facebook for anyone living in Western jurisdictions. The Russian government cannot get them and is hardly going to exchanging intelligence

          No it wouldn’t. You shouldn’t opine on what they’d do. They can negotiate, you know. And they are exchanging intelligence all the time.

          with its enemies.

          If that were true, corporations wouldn’t work with their competitors.

          • @JubilantJaguar
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            37 months ago

            You shouldn’t opine

            To “opine” is to have an opinion. Are you suggesting I should refrain from having an opinion? Does this apply to your own opinions too? Odd place to make such an argument.

            Otherwise: interesting point. To me, a state that can obtain personal data by leaning on its owns corporations is, by definition, more threatening than one that has to negotiate for it with a hostile power. But perhaps I underestimate the scale of that practice.

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              On what they would and wouldn’t do - yes, I try not to make opinions.

              But perhaps I underestimate the scale of that practice.

              Considering that the balance of power between US government and, say, Meta is not much different from the same between it and Russian government (Meta doesn’t have a military, but has ways to compensate for that), that should be right.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, yet telegram isn’t a piece of shit of an app that runs slowly on every device, can’t sync messages because “something went wrong” and doesn’t depend on electron to run. Also, not funded by the CIA.

      • @Linguist
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        327 months ago

        Could you not apply this “funded by the CIA” argument to other things such as… The Tor Network? Which was created by the US Military Naval Research? Also some US government departments have donated to Tor. Does that mean Tor is breached?

        • @TCB13
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          Okay that’s fair, even if remove that and assume they hold zero influence / there are no cleaver backdoors Signal is still not good when it comes to performance and reliability.

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        completely agree with you. I can’t believe why you are getting downvoted. Promoting a platform which is funded by the CIA, US gov and Israel. Completely insane really I don’t understand how people are still believing this. They really need to wake up to the truth otherwise things will never change. Privacy will stay an illusion we give ourselves to believe that nobody can read our messages (even if they absolutely can)

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          you believe every mathematician and the crypto people are conspiring to spy on us and call other people insane?