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Best I can find with keywords “telegram” and “backdoor” is this article: https://socialbarrel.com/telegram-founder-makes-shocking-backdoor-claim-about-whatsapp/
by coolspot 6y ago
Best I can find with keywords “telegram” and “backdoor” is this article:
https://socialbarrel.com/telegram-founder-makes-shocking-backdoor-claim-about-whatsapp/123202/ https://socialbarrel.com/telegram-founder-makes-shocking-bac...
Which discusses how Telegram was banned in many countries for refusing cooperation while WhatsApp suspiciously was never banned, which could mean that WhatsApp gives governments everything they demand.
- beagle3 6y agoI suspect the Google/Facebook deal for "free backup of WhatsApp chats on your Google account" is exactly that. WhatsApp had perfectly usable encrypted backup - which took up space on your Google backup. And then, all of a sudden, it wasn't encrypted and didn't take up space. But you don't have access to it yourself - only Google does (and WhatsApp if it is recovering). This is a perfect way to provide all the data to various governments for 99.9% of users, without killing the E2E encryption.