“Telegram is not a private messenger. There’s nothing private about it. It’s the opposite. It’s a cloud messenger where every message you’ve ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that Telegram the organization controls and has access to it”
“It’s like a Russian oligarch starting an unencrypted version of WhatsApp, a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. Somehow, they’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives in Russia, and their families are there.”
" What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. So that’s in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone’s like, oh, France. But I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn’t have access to the data and couldn’t respond to that same request. To me it’s very obvious that Russia would’ve had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment"
There’s a difference between trusting something written for general purpose use not to have harmful code vs. something written specifically for communications people want to keep private that would therefore be a target.
So either I felt I was making a valid point for consideration that I thought was valuable to make, or I’m a troll wasting everyone’s time.
I know what I am. And I’m starting not to care what you or others think. Go blindly and trust whatever you want, it’s no skin off my back. Frankly, I use Telegram because none of my comms are particularly sensitive, and I have no problem with that. I’d rather my private conversatiosn not be actively posted somewhere, but in the case of a breach, it wouldn’t be the end of my world. So I’ve no problem trusting Telegram thus far, personally, in my case.
Anyway, have a nice time. Understand my point or don’t.