Comment by palata
6 days ago
I don't understand why you're downvoted for this question.
What's wrong with Telegram is the privacy story. It's not end-to-end encrypted, meaning that the server can read the content of your messages.
I hear that Telegram has a great UX, which makes it popular. But in terms of security... it's wanting.
Telegram is a joke in professional cryptography circles https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/726428912968982529
To me it's just not an encrypted messaging app. I don't even get all the discussions about it...
It's a bit like if we analysed the E2EE guarantees of email over and over again. Every year, multitudes of people would publish a post explaining how email is "badly encrypted". Well, email is not E2EE, period. If you want E2EE, use a system that has E2EE.
That would be fine unless Telegram
1) Didn't say it was "Heavily encrypted" on its front page.
2) Didn't claim it was more private than WhatsApp which is always end-to-end encrypted with Signal protocol.
3) Didn't claim secret chats were somehow adequate.
You're again linking to old critiques of an old protocol no longer in use. Can you stop doing that, please?
No. I will not stop pointing out the hubris and nepotism in the company. No real changes have been made in who's designing security for Telegram, so their past is their future. Incompetent people doing crap job.
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