Signal has reproducible builds on Android. If they have on IOS like Telegram then I have missed it.
I realize now that while I wrote reproducible builds on both Android and iOS further up the thread I forgot to in my last reply. It was an honest mistake, I forgot.
Telegram is open source.
And has reproducible builds.
So anyone can audit it and verify that
a) end-to-end encryption either works or does not (but I guess someone had told us if it was broken)
b) it is not enabled by default
c) in the default mode data is sent encrypted to Telegrams data centers, after that you have to trust Telegram not to snoop in it.
Does not mean it is perfect or even good, but for its use cases it is a lot better than HN gives it credit for.
I realize now that while I wrote reproducible builds on both Android and iOS further up the thread I forgot to in my last reply. It was an honest mistake, I forgot.
Telegram is open source.
And has reproducible builds.
So anyone can audit it and verify that
a) end-to-end encryption either works or does not (but I guess someone had told us if it was broken)
b) it is not enabled by default
c) in the default mode data is sent encrypted to Telegrams data centers, after that you have to trust Telegram not to snoop in it.
Does not mean it is perfect or even good, but for its use cases it is a lot better than HN gives it credit for.