Telegram CEO claims rival Signal has ties to US government
www.theregister.com
Drama between two of the leading secure messaging services
  • catalog3115@lemmy.world
    1073·
    2 months ago

    I am going to repeat what I have said for another similar post.

    I still stand for Signal App.

    • Telegram has no default E2EE, Telegram is run by for profit company
    • Multiple flaws were found in Telegram’s encryption algorithm
    • Almost all cleartext messages are stored on telegram server, but signal stores encrypted message temporarily
    • Signal is non-profit & all their source code + finances are public. Even their server codes are publically available
    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      241·
      2 months ago

      Telegram is as safe as just using Facebook DMs (unencrypted), only it’s Russian.

      I suggest you judge for yourself how safe that is.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1246·
      2 months ago

      Yes, yet telegram isn’t a piece of shit of an app that runs slowly on every device, can’t sync messages because “something went wrong” and doesn’t depend on electron to run. Also, not funded by the CIA.

      • Linguist@lemmy.world
        322·
        2 months ago

        Could you not apply this “funded by the CIA” argument to other things such as… The Tor Network? Which was created by the US Military Naval Research? Also some US government departments have donated to Tor. Does that mean Tor is breached?

        • TCB13@lemmy.world
          310·
          2 months ago

          Okay that’s fair, even if remove that and assume they hold zero influence / there are no cleaver backdoors Signal is still not good when it comes to performance and reliability.

      • hruzgar@feddit.de
        925·
        2 months ago

        completely agree with you. I can’t believe why you are getting downvoted. Promoting a platform which is funded by the CIA, US gov and Israel. Completely insane really I don’t understand how people are still believing this. They really need to wake up to the truth otherwise things will never change. Privacy will stay an illusion we give ourselves to believe that nobody can read our messages (even if they absolutely can)