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Greetings!

A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.

They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.

But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! โœจ

I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!

Thank you! โœจ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You don't say? A cloud-service I can access from all devices plus API and bots is not e2e-encrypted with zero knowledge? I'm shocked. That's what "secret chat" is for. Literally.

They chose this way as the regular Joe and Jane don't care for privacy but for comfort. You can never ever have both. Nowhere.

I love tgram for it being so open. And e2e when I need it. I don't need privacy for when my smarthome sends me notifications about a light I left on or something ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, and this allows for proper content moderation. Telegram can actually just find and report creeps to authorities

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That too. Sadly the restrictiveness was badly abused. Noone really wonders but...that's why we can't have nice things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well then use the secret chat if you want your chat to be secret from any prying eyes

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I meant the restrictiveness towards governments. The pesos and Nazis fucked that up, tgram had to do something or have their ill repute grow even more.