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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by arghwhat on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:32AM (#25670284)
- Weird hand-rolled crypto protocol of questionable quality (MTProto). Probably fine in practice, but leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and their marketing to prove it made it worse. It has been through a few revisions since initial scrutiny.

- Only Secret Chats are E2EE. Normal use is just subject to transport encryption. However, this is true for any platform with server-side chat history.

Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by piyushpr134 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:25AM (#25670712)
"leaves a bad taste in your mouth" - May be you should not try to eat a protocol ?
Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by arghwhat on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:19PM (#25691275)
I'm unsure if you're unfamiliar with this phrasing or are simply trolling.

If the latter, well played.