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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they've already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with "the most backdoor looking bug" with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.
Okay just element and signal then?
In the meme, yeah. There are others though:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/
SimpleX looks neat.
Telegram's backend is proprietary software and they (very similarly to Discord for example) can just decide to read your chats whenever they want. It's even worse then WhatsApp in this sense (at least as long as you trust Facebook that they actually encrypt your chats, again, there is no way to know if it's proprietary software).
And yet no one was able to crack it.