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Re:Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp? by rkachowski on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:22AM (#14374535)
whatsapp is end to end encrypted, no? at what point are the messages intercepted?
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Re:Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp? by cmarinas on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:40AM (#14374628)
Well, search for "whatsapp mitm".
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Re:Ask HN: Is Telegram better than WhatsApp? by FabHK on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:25PM (#14377166)
That was more of a theoretical issue. And while some have named it a backdoor, the consensus among infosec experts (which I'm not) seems to be that it was a defensible and even sensible tradeoff of usability vs privacy (for the intended audience). If you want more privacy and less usability, use Signal.
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