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by Ihmahr 4572 days ago
Not only is it possible, they are doing it already. I installed telegram on two devices (android and ipad) and they somehow were both able to decrypt incoming messages. How did the second device get the key..?
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Ah! You were mistaken in the functioning of the service (I thought this might happen). You have to specifically ask for a secure chat with a button press, normally everything is effectively plaintext.
wtf...