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columbus@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Telegram is lying to you about privacy

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Telegram is lying to you about privacy

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columbus@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Telegram is known as a privacy-focused secure messaging app because it markets itself that way. However, it is often criticized by security experts, privacy advocates, and people with common sense who can understand why its claims about being privacy-friendly don't make sense. In this brief article, I'll show you all
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    More people need to understand this, Telegram was never trustworthy to begin with.

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      They spent years lying about their encryption algorithms too acting like they’re more secure than Signal when they never were

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      In the same class as any app store based communication software.

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        Signal can be installed from an apk from their site

        https://signal.org/android/apk/

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          And can you review the source for this APK?

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            Yes, you can even confirm the published source reproduce this specific apk

            https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reproducible-builds/README.md

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              Wow. Not what I expected in the Android world.

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