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Re:Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017) by hiq on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:45PM (#25737740)
> My message history is extremely precious to me and Telegram does an admirable job protecting it

How would you know without E2EE? A Telegram sysadmin could copy all your messages from non-secret chats and you would never know.

The lack of E2EE is also why many (including security experts) recommend WhatsApp over Telegram.

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Re:Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017) by emptysongglass on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:05PM (#25738034)
I ought to have qualified "protected" (or used a more suitable word): protected in the sense that it has stayed intact no matter how many devices I have moved between.
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