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4ad on Aug 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of te...

Open source is irrelevant as the protocol is plain text.

cbsmith on Aug 25, 2024 | [–]

Wait... you're saying if the protocol is binary, that's different somehow?

Either way, you're saying the MTProto is binary? How do you mean that?

4ad on Aug 28, 2024 | | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext

Pretending you misunderstand what I meant is detestable.

cbsmith on Aug 25, 2024 | | | [–]

"...you're saying MTProto isn't binary?"

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