F) They added a third-party verification so that Russian authorities can add an "A+" mark to channels who are complying with the new law and are registered (social network channels/blogs with more than 10K subscribers must be registered with the government now and have the owner identified).
I've tried to use Matrix a few times and eventually end up leaving. The idea is good, but it's just missing so many nice features that it kinda isn't worth the pain. Features that Telegram just keeps dropping like candy.
F) They added a third-party verification so that Russian authorities can add an "A+" mark to channels who are complying with the new law and are registered (social network channels/blogs with more than 10K subscribers must be registered with the government now and have the owner identified).
D) True aside from group calls afaik
E) Neither does Whatsapp/Signal; they rely on a backdoor interface to your phone to send messages.
Signal desktop can send & receive messages while your phone is off, so that doesn't seem correct.
Oh, hey, TIL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596980
Wonder how that works then? Weird.
Signal very definitely does multiparty end-to-end secure messaging.
Weird, every time I mention Signal on HN tptacek responds.
But I'm having trouble discerning what you mean.
Either you're saying group chats are encrypted E2EE - which, I never claimed.
Or, you're mentioning that you can have multiple phones/devices on the same account, which doesn't work the last time I checked.
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E) Yet it works fine on Matrix.
I've tried to use Matrix a few times and eventually end up leaving. The idea is good, but it's just missing so many nice features that it kinda isn't worth the pain. Features that Telegram just keeps dropping like candy.
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F) They don't allow E2EE on GNU/Linux, including phones and desktop.