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The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.

• davexunit 12y ago
  But the server isn't free software, so it's untrustable, even if the protocol didn't have known design issues.
  • 0xFFC 12y ago
    @davexunit I am really impressed with your seriousness about being Free Software , I liked it.
  • talideon 12y ago
    If the protocol was properly designed, the proprietary nature of the server wouldn't be an issue as we could write a server implementing the protocol too. For instance, I don't have to worry about all of tarsnap being open source, because I know from the way the client is implemented that the server can't do a damned thing to sniff my data. However, due to how much of an awful botch job the protocol is, even if the server was FLOSS, it would still be untrustable.