[input_sh]

Fair point, but from my perspective, even if it was absolutely the best end-to-end encryption there is, it wouldn't mean much unless everyone's using Telegram for 1-to-1 communication using Secret Chats feature.

> Some of its channels helped unconnected, scattered rallies mature into well-coordinated action.

This line alone makes their encryption rather meaningless for this use case, since Secret Chats only work between two people.

[skyyler]

Which is why I'm confused people are even talking about their encryption in this thread.

This has nothing to do with secure chats and everything to do with Telegram's Channels feature. But a ton of people that have never used Telegram nor read the article don't know that.

[sam_lowry_]

And proxies. Telegram has great proxy support and virtually anyone can install their own MTProxy in 5 min.

A multitude of proxies, shadow optic cables over the border and a bit of whitelisting from the government to allow payment processing made Telegram invincible.

[maqp]

Where is their MTProxy tutorial?

[sam_lowry_]

https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/MTProxy