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I wonder why people continue to refer to Telegram as an encrypted messenger. It offers transport encryption, sure, but I'm not aware of any messenger that doesn

I wonder why people continue to refer to Telegram as an encrypted messenger. It offers transport encryption, sure, but I'm not aware of any messenger that doesn't (thank god). Telegram's actually end-to-end encrypted chats are not used by default, rarely used by users (afaict), lock you to the platform that initiated the chat and afaik are not even supported by all official clients (maybe this no longer holds true?).

Giorgi 9y ago
It has much to do with Telegrams intention to stand against demands from Russian mafia-alike "government" (https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fines-telegram-app-encryption-key/28797424.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fines-telegram-app-encryption...) and being one of the most used app in Iran during unsuccessful riots, till finally banned and then un-banned after riots were crushed.