Re:Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Bloc...
by ryanlol on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:10PM
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>Attacking Telegram while simultaneously praising WhatsApp seems really strange to me.
Look at them both from a purely technical perspective.
WhatsApp has made an effort to ensure that they're limited to only monetizing the metadata of the chats, Telegram by design does not share this limitation.
Even if you don't trust Whatsapp, you know that they'd have to push a backdoored app to everyone in order to intercept your chats. Telegram is backdoored by default.
Look at them both from a purely technical perspective.
WhatsApp has made an effort to ensure that they're limited to only monetizing the metadata of the chats, Telegram by design does not share this limitation.
Even if you don't trust Whatsapp, you know that they'd have to push a backdoored app to everyone in order to intercept your chats. Telegram is backdoored by default.