Comment by toofy
1 year ago
because on their front page in giant font they call themselves private and secure and outright say “heavily encrypted”.
it’s their own fault. a better question might be:
why do they keep over and over crying when people call them out for endangering their users? it’s super odd.
Exactly this. It is all about how they market themselves. If they had promoted themselves as a social media-ish platform, nobody would be causing a fuss about their encryption.
Neither discord, nor any of the popular IRC clients (HexChat, WeeChat, mIRC) even mention the word security or privacy to promote their products.
Moreover, as Mathew Green mentioned in his blog post, there are many instances where Telegram (or Pavel Durov) has gone out of his way to attack the encryption offered by Signal and WhatsApp. If he were pitting his messenger against discord, why would he be worried about Signal or WhatsApp?