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Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Guys, I think all these computers took military funding. Wake up sheeple.

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