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Here's what telegram's founder say about Whatsapp's privacy (graph.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by clot27@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is an article written by telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on "Why whatsapp will never be secure". Your thoughts?

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[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Check stories about russian journalists..

I have some friends working in the police, many years they showed me how they can read messages of like anyone on telegram I was trying to tell people to stop using telegram for years, but now at least therecs some conversation is going on because of the journalists

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

I have tried to google, most of them were assumptions or russian agencies using ISPs to login to their account in which case its not telegrams fault. Can you provide a substantial proof?