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I know that some people here are suspicious of Telegram because they use their own encryption mechanism, but it's like there's an active campaign against it by
by megalomaniac443 10y ago
I know that some people here are suspicious of Telegram because they use their own encryption mechanism, but it's like there's an active campaign against it by the media. In my country the media has been calling it the "ISIS chatting app".
- tomc1985 10y agoNothing to do with that. Authentication is an essential pillar of a security app, and the ability to effectively authenticate is an important component of opsec. If SMS is compromised (and it is not hard to imagine given how protective govt is about SMS exploits/sigint) then the authentication aspect of any app that relies on SMS is also potentially compromised. Weakest link and all that...
- emsy 10y agoIMO you're unjustifiably downvoted. As a previous reply already said, other services rely on sms auth as well. So why is only Telegram critizised? You can see from previous HN top stories that the mistrust in this service seems especially high.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt's just media doing the thing it always does. Inducing outrage in any way possible. It's too late to call Facebook Messenger an "ISIS chatting app", but consider that e.g. whenever Facebook adds any kind of even remotely useful feature to their service, they're immediately portrayed as stalker paradise by the media.