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by seemslegit 2223 days ago
There is no E2E encryption in Telegram for any reasonable definition of the term.
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This is plain wrong. I think even tptacek has become more careful about his wording now.

There's a lot of problems around Telegram from their marketing to their crypto implementation to their incentives.

But please stick to the facts.

Facts are that whatever e2e encryption telegram allegedly offers needs to be invoked per-conversation as a 'secret chat' and is not availabe on dekstops, normal conversations are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -encrypted