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by Nekit1234007 3728 days ago
Telegram received quite a backlash from crypto community for rolling out nonsensical throw-a-bunch-of-crypto-algorithms-together homebrew protocol that was designed by Math PhD™ students and having an audacity of conducting a contest to break it.

This OTOH uses peer reviewed, strong, modern crypto that was designed by people who know how to do these things.
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alias240 3728 days ago
The crypto might be superior, but we do not know for sure that Whatsapp/Facebook is not covertly decrypting the messages and funneling through some Prism v2 NSA surveillance operation.
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Nekit1234007 3728 days ago
You can say say the same about Telegram, can you not?
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