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I don't know Telegram, but if they know that terrorists are using them, it's probably not that secure.

• nathankleyn 11y ago
  These are Telegram channels, which is a private individual broadcasting messages to others publicly (as opposed to 1-1 private messaging, which is encrypted end-to-end). It seems perfectly reasonable that they can and will moderate channels, but not conversations.
  • thecatspaw 11y ago
    1 to 1 private messaging is not encrypted by default, logs are stored on a server and made available to all devices by a certain user. If you enable 1-1 encryption, it is only possible to read the conversation on those 2 devices that iniated it, as only those have the keys to decrypt it.
• sz4kerto 11y ago
  As mentioned in my other comment below: channels are for broadcasting. You can create public channels. Of course a public channel will be public. Why do you comment if you have zero information?
  • norswap 11y ago
    I thought it was one of those who focused on encryption.
• yeukhon 11y ago
  I am not sure if it was telegram who found it. I don't use it so I don't have any loyalty here. The discovery probably came from investigations. Maybe they caught some terrorists and found Telegram on the mobile device. I believe the intelligence has learned terrorists are using Telegram or similar software for communication for a period of time. They just couldn't hack out the actual messages, hence why the governments are constantly asking for less encryption on civilian communication, or the ability to intercept the traffic for analysis. But you know what, you have to trust the software doing its claim. I know there are people eager to do reproducible build to verify that the client software is actually what it claims to be.