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Definately not the same. For a better snapchat—like feature, where you want reasonable protection against your coms partner telegram is way better. Also protect
by stilisstuk 6y ago
Definately 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 agoBut I can't go back and delete a message. I can prepare to delete the next message. Not, a message.
- jolux 6y agoI mean, that feature can be abused in a whole host of ways
- stilisstuk 6y agoIn a private chat... thats a feature. Imo