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But e.g. signal don't have the feature where either party of a conversation can delete messages on both phones. This is possible with telegrams secret chat. And
by stilisstuk 6y ago
But e.g. signal don't have the feature where either party of a conversation can delete messages on both phones. This is possible with telegrams secret chat. And its great.
- jolux 6y agoSignal has disappearing messages for this use case. Not the same but the crypto in Signal is so much better (and permanently enabled) it’s hard to argue that Telegram is more secure.
- vbezhenar 6y agoHow can crypto be better or worse? It's either works or it does not. I did not hear about anyone breaking Telegram crypto.
- jolux 6y agoTelegram have said that you can’t trust Signal because the developers live in the US and something something the CIA, which is pretty ridiculous. They rolled their own crypto and they aren’t cryptographers, which should be reason enough not to trust its security: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegram-secure https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
- vbezhenar 6y agoThis answer is ridiculous. They got world level mathematicians in their team, what more do you want? Who are those "cryptographers"? And why those cryptographers don't break Telegram if they think that their crypto is broken? Again, crypto is either broken or not. Telegram crypto is not broken. It's fine. Not everyone might like it, but that does not matter. I don't know story about CIA (although I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Signal is honeypot), so can't comment about that.
- fsflover 6y ago>Again, crypto is either broken or not. Security is not a yes/no thing. It is equal to the price to break it. If the cryptography is well-tested for decades, the price is much higher. This is not true for Telegram. It does not matter how good its creators are.
- jolux 6y agoMathematicians are not cryptographers. Crypto is harder to trust when the rationale behind it hasn’t been justified. Signal’s crypto is very easy to justify. That’s about it.
- stilisstuk 6y agoDefinately not the same. For a better snapchat—like feature, where you want reasonable protection against your coms partner telegram is way better. Also protects you from screenshots etc (again: reasonable privacy relative to threat model)
- milkshakes 6y agodoes it protect you from taking a picture of your phone? i'd rather have a foundation of properly functioning, award winning cryptography than "features" designed for people who haven't thought through their threat model sufficiently. castles made of sand melt into the sea eventually
- stilisstuk 6y agoMy threat model with nudes are different from my whistle blowing. Signal also makes trade offs in order to het crypto to the masses.
- jolux 6y agoYeah, but “supporting plaintext comms by default” is not a trade off to get crypto to the masses, it’s a failure to do so at all. What’s wrong with the disappearing messages feature?
- stilisstuk 6y agoDisappearing messages are per thread. In telegram i can choose to 'disapear' single messages.
- jolux 6y agoYou can turn it on and off for the conversation whenever you want.
- stilisstuk 6y ago