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While on the subject of Telegram, check this out: https://github.com/simplex-chat https://github.com/simplex-chat
by mrinfinitiesx 2y ago
While on the subject of Telegram, check this out:
https://github.com/simplex-chat https://github.com/simplex-chat
- wkat4242 2y ago"100% private" claims always make me incredibly suspicious since it is impossible to achieve that. Security is a matter of threat modeling against an expected adversary and nothing protects against a serious interest from a state level actor. This is why I don't really care that Telegram doesn't do E2EE by default. Most of my chats aren't that interesting and in my threat model it's good enough.
- mrinfinitiesx 2y agoI don't disagree. It's just another messenger. Just a 'check it out' - I stick with the simple things. No need for 324823494234 different things that try to solve the same problems, and never do. The telegram jpg/file exploits recently with the inline imaging just go to show security is theater until the next CVE
- maqp 2y agoYeah absolutely not. The project lies about its ability to look away from the fact it has access to all IPs conversing. A server has to have a way to relay packets from identifier A to identifier B, yet they claim they don't know if A and B talk. And they claim something as mundane as a multiprocess Queue can achieve this.