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Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?
Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?
Telegram is legitimately bad, it’s only saving grace being that it is STILL BETTER THAN DISCORD! It’s main “Sin” is rolling it’s own Encryption Algorithm; which has been proven to be less than 100% airtight and secure.
Sadly your average user does not care about privacy above all else. They only care about privacy in as much as it can factually and emotionally affect their daily lives. TL;DR: You have to incentivize them to care, and they will often refuse to move, or outright dislike a platform, if a specific feature they love or depend on doesn’t exist, even when it is 100% not critical to the application’s function.
I don’t believe that has been proven. There has been criticism of it 1, 2 from prominent cryptographers though.
Their response was even more dodgy trying to somehow inject some sort of “nationalistic”, “america bad” into it:
At the end of the day math is math regardless where it comes from. Secret chats also only work with the mobile client, have to be manually turned on and do not work for group chats and as it’s a centralized server you can’t host your own.
And with RFC 9420 aka Messaging Layer Security (MLS) being standardized, it’s likely all the good messengers will use that.