Comment on Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor

Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Telegram, including secret chats, is not blocked because Russian elites happen to use that, too.

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  • brrt@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could put on my tinfoil hat and say if signal is blocked but telegram isn’t, maybe that means that telegram isn’t as secret as they make it out to be.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s open source. Look can up the encryption yourself.

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      • Varcour@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No need, all you have to do is read the whitepaper. they home brewed the encryption algorithm and nobody actually knows if it’s worth a damn. That’s not exactly a secret.

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

        Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can it be proven that that encryption is what’s used in practice?

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  • lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Telegram is shady as fuck and also afaik only uses end to end encryption in „secret“ one on one chats.

      I was very explicitly referring to secret chats.

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