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Comment by eitland

7 years ago

> and Russian subpoenas for their master private keys.

While I cannit defend (or attack, I'm no cryptographer) their crypto they seem to have a solution to this:

They say they don't store keys in the same datacenter or even jurisdiction as the customer data they protect.

According to them this means getting unencrypted data through a legal process would mean getting a warrant in two or more countries at once.

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akotulski  7 years ago

> They say

> According to them

I find it very hard trusting their word. And we know the company has the ability to read messages. How is telegram better from FB messenger?

  • eitland  7 years ago

    Sorry for my late reply:

    > And we know the company has the ability to read messages.

    I don’t think we actually know that.

    In fact I think they have a system to keep data and keys apart and in different jurisdictions to prevent USA, Russia or anyone from being able to get access to it.

    I am no cryptographer or legal expert though.

    > How is telegram better from FB messenger?

    This is a bit simpler: while Facebook messenger might be E2E encrypted I have good reason to believe that Facebook will datamine my metadata and sell it to however wants to pay.