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This was allegedly used by the authorities in Hong Kong during protests there in 2019, but using Telegram. Telegram responded by introducing a new setting that
by sorenjan 6y ago
This was allegedly used by the authorities in Hong Kong during protests there in 2019, but using Telegram. Telegram responded by introducing a new setting that hides your number from people that aren't in your own contacts.
https://telegram.org/blog/scheduled-reminders-themes#new-privacy-settings https://telegram.org/blog/scheduled-reminders-themes#new-pri...
- romanr 6y agoTelegram indeed have better UX and same level of e2e security. Why Signal is getting all the publicity?
- nix23 6y agoTelegram is not opensource, Signal is...and yes you can setup your own server with Signal. Why trust a Closed-source-Software? Do you even know that it is encrypted?
- fsflover 6y agoYou can setup your own server with Signal, but you will not participate in the same network, so this is not really relevant.
- nix23 6y agoFor Country's or big-business it is relevant
- sorenjan 6y agohttps://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
- nix23 6y agoTHAT is not the server, its like saying Firefox is opensource so Facebook is too, thanks and no thanks for the link's.
- sorenjan 6y agoThe encryption takes place in the client though, which you can verify by looking at the client source code. I find your comparison with Facebook a bit lacking, a better one would have been by looking at the Firefox code to verify if https traffic is encrypted.
- detaro 6y agoTelegram has off-by-default E2E encryption with a less vetted algorithm that only works for 1:1 chats, and less focus on minimizing server knowledge. That's clearly not > same level of e2e security
- prophesi 6y agoAnd both users need to be online at the same time for the E2E-encrypted chat. Very limiting.