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Telegram always elicits bizarre reactions from the public. On one side there’s actual security professionals saying don’t use Telegram because it’s not fully E2E encrypted, and on the other side there’s people who are convinced that it’s secure because Marketing and that there’s this big conspiracy to stop people from using Telegram.

The real conspiracy theory is: Telegram have never made any attempt to either implement full E2E or to dissuade their users for using it for politically sensitive messages. Why not?



> Telegram have never made any attempt to either implement full E2E or to dissuade their users for using it

It's probably true. There are still no e2ee chats on desktop, which includes my smartpon running GNU/Linux.


Does iMessage not count and E2EE (with the caveat of disabling iCloud) to you? It’s available on desktop.



Lol, just look at the person's handle.


Yeah. Go ahead.


> The real conspiracy theory is: Telegram have never made any attempt to either implement full E2E or to dissuade their users for using it for politically sensitive messages. Why not?

Could be something nefarious or could be because not doing things is easier than doing things. Why bother if the existing conditions are just fine (for Telegram)?




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