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Telegram is superior to Whatsapp from every perspective except for its smaller user base. However, how can you take as unbiased a comparison table that uses ad
by mino 10y ago
Telegram is superior to Whatsapp from every perspective except for its smaller user base.
However, how can you take as unbiased a comparison table that uses adjectives as "Incredibly fast loading times", "UNRIVALED", etc.?
- unicornporn 10y ago> Telegram is superior to Whatsapp from every perspective except for its smaller user base. I'd say, except for its security/encryption...
- lucb1e 10y agoThe encryption they claim to use. Not saying they don't, just saying it's only "sort of" superior on encryption, given this caveat.
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoThe same goes for Telegram. The android client hasn't seen any updates to it's github repo since sep 2016. And, it is quite easy to verify that WhatsApp's encryption is doing what we think. A friend of mine managed to reverse engineer their protocol in 2012 in less than 24 hours, by himself. And there is quite a big chunk of the computer security market that would disagree with the claim that something has to be open source to be verifiably secure.
- idanoeman 10y agoCouldn't WhatsApp faithfully implement the protocol, but also keylog and phone home occasionally? How would you know?
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoSure, but then again so could Telegram. It's a rather fruitless discussion.
- idanoeman 10y agoNo it's not. The fruit is: use a sideloaded Signal which you built yourself if you really need to be secure. If you're not, Signal is still better than Telegram or Whatsapp.
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoWell, that I agree on, but that wasn't the discussion I was having :)