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Are there still apps that arnt encrypted?

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Telegram, for all their security claims, is basically not actually encrypted at all.

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This is incorrect. Telegram is not end to end encrypted by default. But it is encrypted to and from their servers.

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Thank you! It winds me up so much when people parrot that claim.

Telegram is encrypted in transit and encrypted at rest on their servers. At no point is any data stored or transmitted without encryption. Whether you believe their claims of never giving out encryption keys is another matter.

My view is that if the feds wanted my chat logs that badly they wouldn’t go after Telegram, they’d go after me and my device directly, and at that point all bets are off.

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TLS isn’t sufficient for messaging apps in 2024

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yeah, that means not encrypted. When speaking to a web server, you are one end, and the server is the other. Tls ensures that there isn’t a man-in-the-middle.

In case of telegram, you are one end another user is the other end. Telegram themselves are, by design, a man-in-the-middle in this case. I’m not concerned about a different middleman intercepting communications between me and telegram. I’m concerned about any middleman (which includes telegram themselves) intercepting communications between me and my friend.

So no, telegram chats are not encrypted by default. Telegram can read them.

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Luckily I misuse Telegram only as a system notification program.

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There are many where the server owners can see the messages, just not anyone else between the sender and receiver.

Threema and Signal are good options that don’t do this.

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Signal being an American company is also problematic.

These two are the best balance of security/convenience, however.

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