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> It is even possible that Durov has saved lives by not communicating user information to the french intelligence services.

If you ignore the missing human rights activists were using telegram and then suddenly disappeared.

as pointed out before, telegram is utterly compromised security wise. Its really advantageous that "naughty people" are documenting their stuff there as it leaves a loverly indelible trail of actions.

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> If you ignore the missing human rights activists were using telegram and then suddenly disappeared.

What human rights activists? What kind of gaslighting is that?

What does missing human rights activists have to do with telegram?

What are your sources on "utterly compromised security on telegram"?

> What are your sources on "utterly compromised security on telegram"?

Have you looked at the "encrypted" protocol? Wonderfully complex, and the key authority is telegram, with little to no way to spot bait and switch. But thats the "secret" messaging. Everything else is plain text and stored centrally.

its basically facebook/slack with better cyrillic support.

These are all false claims. Messages are not stored in plaintext. Secret Chats are E2EE and use standard crypto primitives. All of this is well-documented. [1] [2]

[1] https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/AJiEAwIYFoAsBGJBjZwYoQIwFM...

[2] https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

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