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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by khabaal on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:58AM (#12548177)
I would not entrust my data to telegram either. Enrolling your own crypto protocol [MTProto] is, in my opinion, something which you should not do.

They also have a nice privacy policy, which is worth looking at: https://telegram.org/privacy

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Re:WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Fac... by raverbashing on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:28AM (#12548439)
> Enrolling your own crypto protocol [MTProto] is, in my opinion, something which you should not do

Signal did the same thing.

The question is who's more capable and builds a more secure system

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