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>It's almost perfect All it needs is research-verified encryption!
by corndoge 7y ago
>It's almost perfect
All it needs is research-verified encryption!
- SergeAx 7y agoOh, come on! The $200000 bounty for breaking Telegram encryption is there forever. SHA-1 BTC piñata was broken in 2017[1], and MTproto still stands. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13714987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13714987
- SergeAx 7y agoRussian government needed to use it's leverage on a telco to break into political activist's Telegrams[2] about the same time some script kiddies easily broke into dozen of celebs' iClouds. [2] https://www.ft.com/content/74d5ce00-12dd-11e6-839f-2922947098f0 https://www.ft.com/content/74d5ce00-12dd-11e6-839f-292294709...
- stephenr 7y agoUsing phishing and other social engineering to steal passwords is unrelated to breaking crypto.