Comment by StrLght
1 year ago
I'd suggest waiting for more details from French officials, they have already said that they'll address it tomorrow. So far claims from the media sound like Durov's being prosecuted due to very little moderation on the platform, not because of E2EE.
Even so, most messages sent on Telegram are plaintext, they're encrypted only in transport layer, but Telegram's servers see them in full. Secret chats (the only E2EE chats on Telegram) are hidden away from the users, hence the original link.
> So far claims from the media sound like Durov's being prosecuted due to very little moderation on the platform, not because of E2EE.
But that's why it's good. With all the mainstream media censoring stuff, telegram was a (good for the people) exception.
On the other hand, that's probably why they arrested him.
I don't think GP was claiming that is bad, just that his arrest has nothing to do with E2EE of private chats - at least that's the impression I also got from the media.
> Even so, most messages sent on Telegram are plaintext, they're encrypted only in transport layer, but Telegram's servers see them in full.
you contradict yourself in the same sentence
He means that the messages are only encrypted during transport, like with HTTPS.
Your browser sends a clear message over an encrypted pipe, and the server on the other side, sees this clear message.