#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:
Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
https://rys.io/en/171.html
Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.
Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.
Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.
They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.
Despite the claims that #Telegram never shares any data or metadata, there are relatively clear cases of them having shared metadata with an Indian court and German law enforcement.
There are strong indications, as reported by Wired, they might have shared message contents with the Russian government, targeting activists in Russia.
By default, Telegram chats do not use end-to-end encrypted mode aka "Secret Chats". End-to-end encryption is also completely unavailable for groups and channels.
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Despite the claims that #Telegram never shares any data or metadata, there are relatively clear cases of them having shared metadata with an Indian court and German law enforcement.
There are strong indications, as reported by Wired, they might have shared message contents with the Russian government, targeting activists in Russia.