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by inciampati 3243 days ago
You are arguing that we should not blindly trust someone's assertion that a product is good. For WhatsApp we have to trust someone's assertion that things are implemented as they claim. For telegram the e2e stuff is at least open source and directly reviewable.

I don't trust either Moxie or Pavel. At least in one instance we can trust the code.

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> You are arguing that we should not blindly trust someone's assertion that a product is good.

Then we both should be using Signal since all of Signal is open source. This is what I use.

> For WhatsApp we have to trust someone's assertion that things are implemented as they claim. For telegram the e2e stuff is at least open source and directly reviewable.

Telegram still has blobs that are not released with the source code, so there is still a bit of a block box related to Telegram.