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Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you group chat on Telegram channel, then encryption doesn't mean much..Your weak link is every user that can screen shot or copy paste your messages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your weak link is every user that can screen shot or copy paste your messages.

It's the same for any chats (and apps) including telegram's own secret 1 on 1 chat, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yep, thats why encrypted chat is a false sense of security. Group ones being worse because you may not know if those joining are legit. You would need Session peer to peer with overlays( screenshots) blocked, but even then a person with another phone just tales a photo of the screen