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"Here's what someone who has never created a private messenger thinks about Whatsapp's privacy."
Why would anyone care about what he has to say? ๐
Owned by Facebook, which is a giant US company.
Of fucking course it has backdoors.
I'm confused regarding why you don't consider telegram a private messenger.
It's been a while since I looked into it, and things might have changed since then, but some stuff off the top of my head:
Apart from that it's somewhat politically questionable, based in Dubai (I think), with dubious financial backing and Russian developers. Because it's closed source and the encryption is proprietary, there's no way of knowing how much info it leaks.
Yes, pretty much necessary to provide multidevice support
True that and telegram sucks big here, but I donth think e2ee can be enabled in a feasible way for multiple devices.
The MTProto isnt open source but its fully documented, there have been security audits on it.
No. Pavel Durov have always said since starting he paid for telegram's servers from his pocket, in recent years telegram has started monetisation programs to cover its costs.
The founders were born in Russia, but they now have dual citizenship of UAE and France. If you are talking about politically questionable, even signal have been accused of having backdoors for CIA.
Never has been, no default e2ee, and those exploits that leaked a ton of users locations.
Not to mention, no messenger is verifiably private unless it is fully open source.
Telegram isn't, so you must be very confused indeed