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by anonymoose33282 1217 days ago
I actually wrote to Telegram’s support team to get more info about this, and it seems the article has a lot of errors. The support rep linked me to this, https://telegra.ph/Wired-Errors which is Telegram’s response to all of it.
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> as no app can defend against direct access to a device.

Of course you can't protect the local data from all the possible attacks but there are many ways to prevent some attacks and complicate others. So this article isn't honest.

I kinda don't understand why people trust telegram. Regular messages aren't even encrypted. SMS authentication. Contact harvesting. Mandatory background run permissions (the app would constantly complain if it can't run its background tasks). Then some strange people selling users' metadata. One time I've purchased my location history for ~30 euros in TRX and it was accurate.