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Careb's avatar

Marlinspike was an anarchist. It is highly unlikely that he is woke.

Concerning Telegram:

Telegram is a really bad choice if you want private and secure communication, especially private and secure group chats, because Telegram doesn’t encrypt them end-to-end. The app just doesn’t support this.

And when it comes to direct chats, you need to manually turn on end-to-end-encryption because this is not enabled per default.

Many people don’t know that Telegram just isn’t that secure or private.

Furthermore, Telegram have developed their own obscure encryption algorithm, which is something you just don’t do in cryptography because those algorithms need to be very well and widely tested before they are being considered secure.

Signal on the other hand is using well know cryptographic functions and their protocol has been scrutinized a lot. If you are not convinced, read one of the numerous papers or look at the code yourself because Signal is open source.

Signal still seems to be the far more private and secure app compared to Telegram, especially if you need private and secure group chats.

And if you are still unconvinced, maybe try Threema.

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Carlos Castaneda's avatar

A lot of people that are woke claim to be anarchist.

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