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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by EGreg on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:02AM (#26472890)
It is built by an anarchist person who always refused to give out personal info of people to the point where his company was taken from him, and he ran away to France. He and his brother hired a ton of PhDs and made lots of paid challenges that no one could break their encryption. Their software is open sourced. The encryption Moxie Marlinspike uses was conveniently funded by the very US government agencies interested in breaking encryption.

https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privac...

https://twitter.com/durov/status/872891017418113024?s=21

Or if you want just a track record of the most RECENT bugs and backdoors that were exploited, look two months ago:

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/21/bugs-video-chat-a...

Find me the same for Telegram!

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by andyjih_ on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:04AM (#26476807)
That tweet you linked is from the CEO of Telegram. Seems likely he wants to sow doubt about his competitors.
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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by EGreg on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:00AM (#26477602)
He is simply pointing out what others have as well - that using the crypto whose development was financed by the very people interested in breaking it, may not be that smart.

And is the story about from Jan about vulnerabilities in Signal that are absent in Telegram also planted by him? Want to see more incidents like that?

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