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A private company having apparently access to all my messages (it's not true, there is encryption) is still somewhat better than meta AND the whole US governmen
by herbst 3y ago
A private company having apparently access to all my messages (it's not true, there is encryption) is still somewhat better than meta AND the whole US government having access to my data
- HenryBemis 3y ago> it's not true, there is encryption Who has the keys? What exactly is encrypted? 1-2-1 chats? Group chats? Attachments? Are metadata handed over? Dear Autumn12 don't just read the marketing material. In a real example: Apple's Cloud has a copy of most users' data as (by f...g default) when you activate an iphone it enables them all. I remember the case with that terrorist (was it the Boston Marathon guy?) that Apple wouldn't hack the device but they handed everything they had on their cloud to FBI.
- herbst 3y agoOp claimed it's not encrypted. Which again is simply wrong. Other than that you'll find details about their p2p encryption here https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end if you want. I don't know what you want to say with your example, but there are dozens of examples where telegram did not give out data even thought they likely should have. It's definitely a more private choice to apple or meta
- jacooper 3y agoI meant not encrypted as in not E2EE, which is true. Telegram does so many stuff to avoid saying they have the keys.
- lxgr 3y ago> it's not true, there is encryption Yes, but not by default, and it’s weird/custom and not properly peer-reviewed. > somewhat better than meta AND the whole US government having access to my data How do you know that that is the case for WhatsApp?