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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by kome on Monday March 26, 2018 @03:59AM (#16677373)
But with Signal you still need a smartphone (i.e: very bad for privacy); while with telegram you don't. Also, with Telegram you can protect the account with a password, so you can use a burner phone, literally once, and then forget about it.
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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by def_true_false on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:53AM (#16678449)
With Telegram you have no privacy - no one uses the e2ee (secret chats). Perhaps because the desktop client doesn't support the feature, and even if it did, secret chats wouldn't sync across devices.
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Re:Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones... by kome on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:48PM (#16681395)
it's not like the chats are in clear text, because they are not. They aren't encrypted e2e, but they are still encrypted.
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