Some people say it’s really privacy-giving and that you should use it as a privacy alternative. Others say it’s alao on the big tech side. What’s going on with telegram, really?
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Some people obviously do not know what they are talking about. Telegram stores clear text chat messages on their servers. That’s not even near privacy
A lot of debate has been had about whether the CEO is trustworthy, but I guess if they’re not doing end to end encryption then there’s no point.
There’s no debate. The CEO is a compulsive liar who misleads people about how encryption works. Every one who knows how encryption works and have looked at Telegram will tell you Telegram is not encrypted
stores clear text chat messages on their servers.
Does it really?
By default, yes. It is possible to create a so-called secret chat, which is standard for signal and similar, but that’s something you have to manually do. Furthermore, it’s not even possible to make secret chats for groups. When it was initially released, I was cautiously optimistic that it could turn into a good, secure application, but knowing it’s been this long and it hasn’t, I wouldn’t consider that likely.
It absolutely doesn’t mean they store chats in plain text. There is no reason for it at all, it’s extra work and extra stupidity. It’s encrypted when the client sends it, no reason not to store it that way.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to say here. To clarify, telegram uses a store-forward architecture, meaning that it deletes messages from the server once they have been received by everyone. Until that time, the messages are stored on the server in plaintext, unless you’re using a secret chat. They do this to avoid having to exchange keys between different clients, but what that really means is that it isn’t actually private most of the time.
I wouldn’t call it “big tech”. The biggest problem is that none of the chats are encrypted by default. And even if you do use “secret chats”, the encryption there doesn’t seem to be up to PAR with modern standards.
The creator previously refused to comply with warrants but since he was jailed in France, that’s pretty much over.
A good messenger is unable to comply, by design, because it simply does not store the data that these govts are after.
It was much better in the past in years 2017 ,now don’t use it.they put many limitations to custom clients and still not published source code of server as it was promised
Just another application owned by multi miliionaire
Like being poor makes it okay.
It relies on a service we do not control.
Every text you send through Telegram is stored in plaintext. Telegram and authorities can access that without your knowledge. Also it will get leaked in a breach someday.
Now you decide for yourself if it’s private.
False. If you want to tell how things works, get your facts right!
All data sent to Telegram’s servers will be encrypted once they reach the servers. So the messages and media and other files, will be sent in “plain text” over HTTPS only when using Cloud Chat. In Secret Chat, MTProto is (based on how E2EE works) as safe as what Signal Protocol is.
But nothing will be stored in plain text, no matter what you use (Cloud Chat or Secret Chat).
But(!) since the source code for MTProto is closed, we don’t know how it really works, and if we can trust their FAQ or not.
I trusted Telegram at first, but I don’t trust it 100% anymore. Using my own Snikket server these days. Much safer with a lot of 😌😊😍😃 moments, even today, maybe a year later. Especially with OMEMO (Signal Protocol).
Telegram allegedly complied with a government to give them user data, and their e2e encryption was switched to be off by default. I know because when I started the chat with someone we raved about how it says ‘end to end encrypted’ before sending a message. Well, between then and when I decided to migrate off it, that private one-to-one chat’s encryption was switched off.
I say it’s okay, but only ensure that e2ee is on
Even with e2ee, I wouldn’t trust it since they use a closed-source, proprietary encryption protocol.
