Moxie Marlinspike@moxie
Feb 25, 2022
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Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s an “encrypted app”
The reality is the opposite-TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd.
Moxie Marlinspike@moxie
Dec 23 21
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It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger."
Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works:
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Every msg, photo, video, doc sent/received for the past 10 yrs; all contacts, group memberships, etc are all available to anyone w/ access to that DB
Many TG employees have family in Russia. If Russia doesn’t want to bother w/ hacking, they can leverage family safety for access.
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