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Why wouldn't he make it truly secure by hardening the most used features? They don't even seem to work on it. There is this optional encryption, but nobody see

• diggan 2y ago
  > Why wouldn't he make it truly secure by hardening the most used features? E2E encryption comes with tradeoffs, it's not something you tack on to a protocol and not having to change a bunch of other stuff. I think one of the main selling point of Telegram is the public channels/huge groups where you can openly communicate with people, and tacking E2E encryption into those would probably involve a ton of work, not really sure how it would work (or what benefit it would bring)
  • Krasnol 2y ago
    > I think one of the main selling point of Telegram is the public channels/huge groups where you can openly communicate with people, There is nothing wrong with that. But why pretend to be secure and use that as a marketing claim?
• golergka 2y ago
  Because most people want to have shared history, including in groups, including before they were added. And they also want to be able to recover a lost password, and not loose all their data if they forget it. And they want these things much more than protection from intelligence agencies. And may be I'm not a great at crypto, but I can't figure out a way of having all these features and still have end-to-end encryption.
  • Krasnol 2y ago
    So why market it as secure in the first place? If people don't care, you wouldn't have to also. I don't think people don't care. From all those discussions in the recent days, you can see a wide range of different people who actually think it is secure.