this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
20 points (95.5% liked)

Technology

59179 readers
2145 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
20
Should it really be Telegram? (tim.kicker.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by Provider@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

All of your assertions would be easily provable if Telegram allowed audits and provided public financials. They do neither. In fact, they just try to talk in loops when it is brought up.

The whole operation is sketchy as hell. Anyone who provides their data to such an org is foolish. At least the Meta’s of the world have to declare their use and it is known and audited.

Telegram wouldn’t even provide a CUSIP or names of the firms that supposedly bought their corporate paper bond.

I’ll stick with Signal. An org whose funding is clear and who has their encryption and security audited by third parties.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

What could be other reasons not to do an audit other than it being shady? Maybe they just don’t want to disclose their algorithm?

So far, I trust it more than WhatsApp.

But Signal is definitely the better choice. It’s just sad the people didn’t go with Signal instead of WhatsApp.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What could be other reasons not to do an audit other than it being shady? Maybe they just don’t want to disclose their algorithm?

So far, I trust it more than WhatsApp.

But Signal is definitely the better choice. It’s just sad the people didn’t go with Signal instead of WhatsApp.

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What could be other reasons not to do an audit other than it being shady? Maybe they just don’t want to disclose their algorithm?

So far, I trust it more than WhatsApp.

But Signal is definitely the better choice. It’s just sad the people didn’t go with Signal instead of WhatsApp.