A lot of privacy guides suggest avoiding Telegram. I understand that in its default mode there’s no E2EE (and no E2EE for groups at all). If people I know don’t wanttko use Signal, isn’t Telegram the lesser evil given it’s nicer privacy policy (than other popular ones)?

Say I use the FOSS version of it.

  • hiajen@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Despite you using the foss client of telegram there is no source for the server, signal has published it’s code.

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      1 year ago

      True. There’s some trust involved there still, but way less trust needed than with a company that simply doesn’t publish its server code.