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Let's see, Signal is based in the US. Wechat is a Chinese system with a great UX that is based in China. Telegram used to be based in Russia. Whatsapp is owned
by aclsid 8y ago
Let's see, Signal is based in the US. Wechat is a Chinese system with a great UX that is based in China. Telegram used to be based in Russia. Whatsapp is owned by Facebook.
I think it is pretty self-explanatory that in all these countries, governments haven't been exactly subtle when it comes to their efforts to intercept communications. In my mind, Telegram is the only software that resisted such interference in an almost heroic way and ended up having to move out of the country.
- amedvednikov 8y agoTelegram is still banned in Russia.
- AtHeartEngineer 8y agoSignal is in no way tied to the US government though, just because the developers are here doesn't mean anything. And if you are talking about the servers being here, everything is end to end encrypted, even if the government was to try to get useful data off signal servers, there is nothing to get.
- fernandotakai 8y ago>Telegram used to be based in Russia. no, it's not. it was created by a russian (pavel durov) but it's developed by a company registered in london with servers all over the world[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Servers