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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by Hnrobert42 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:32AM (#25645869)
How can you know it’s not E2EE? The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, or something like that.

I agree that closed source is harder to verify, but that’s not the same as insecure.

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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by anoncake on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:07PM (#25653120)
If you can't verify your messages are E2EE, you have to trust the vendor. But if you trust the vendor, you don't need E2EE to begin with.
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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by Hnrobert42 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:44PM (#25662186)
There are other threat actors than the vendor looking to compromise the confidentiality of your message.
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Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online by anoncake on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:44PM (#25663003)
Those actors don't have the vendor's encryption keys.
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