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Articles: Anything about Telegram Discussion: crypto baaad/all chats logged/insecure by default etc. etc.

Yes we got it you don't like telegram. Use whatever and move on. There is no need to constantly come up with the same BS. Cloud chats are in the cloud (which you probably hate too ryt?) and no, they are not e2e encrypted. Calling it a server side logging is just straight out FUD. Also pretty sure 99+% of all telegram user never use the secret chat feature because telegram is mostly so useful because of all the rest. And people use it for all the rest (large community groups/channels/bots/games). I'm sure more than 99% of my telegram messages go to groups that are public or semi public (like you would find the link on another platform if you are part of the community there). Its absolutely unwanted to have any kind of nonsense encryption for such groups. Yet all the feature telegram can provide because it does not have nonsense encryption, like fast server side search or link to messages visible on the web, are the reason I and other use it. Just like y'all use hacker news and don't mind that your comments are "server side logged".

tl;dr A tool isn't broken or insecure because it does not what you want it to do. It's just the wrong tool for you.




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