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Telegram isn’t end to end encrypted and you should uninstall it from your device.

• denysvitali 2y ago
  Neither is HN, should I stop using it too? Btw, Telegram is E2E encrypted opt-in
  • _djo_ 2y ago
    Not for group chats.
  • sneak 2y ago
    HN doesn’t have direct/private messaging. There is no expectation of privacy in public comments. Systems designed around direct messaging that don’t have e2ee should not be used; otherwise you normalize surveillance.
    • denysvitali 2y ago
      I would expect a public chat with 1k+ users to be considered public. Even when E2E encrypted, it just takes one person out of those 1k to leak the whole content - so what's the point? I too advocate for privacy, but for public discussions E2E encryption would make sense only as a mean of certification (person holding the key really wrote the message)
      • sneak 2y ago
        It’s not the groupchat; it’s the DMs that occur in parallel. Telegram would be fine without e2ee if it had no DMs.
        • cubefox 2y ago
          Or if the "DMs" were encrypted by default.