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by snowpanda 3083 days ago
>>To me, this article reads as a better example of the problems with the security industry and the way security research is done today, because I think the lesson to anyone watching is clear: don't build security into your products, because that makes you a target for researchers, even if you make the right decisions, and regardless of whether their research is practically important or not. It's much more effective to be Telegram: just leave cryptography out of everything, except for your marketing.

I am not sure your point is really being reinforced by comparing a flaw by a bigger flaw. You admitted (regarding WhatsApp) that 'it would be better if...'. And that it's an 'unsolved problem'. So why not focus as a community on solving that problem instead of comparing it to a (in your opinion) bigger problem (meaning Telegram) to even out the score?

Additionally, Telegram did not leave cryptography out of everything. You might not agree with it, it might not be secure, it might not be available in group chats, but to say they have left it out completely isn't true[1], you know that too.

https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end