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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by whistlecow on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:23PM (#26524161)
It would be of such niceness if telegram was fully end-2-end encryption.
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by vetinari on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:40PM (#26524672)
That's exactly what secret chats are.
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by tridenrake on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:35PM (#26525536)
I am still waiting for the day when I can initiate a secret chat from my desktop client.
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by kennydude on Saturday March 20, 2021 @04:52PM (#26525990)
At least on macOS you can
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by BelenusMordred on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:30PM (#26527676)
Group chats are not encrypted.
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by vetinari on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:52PM (#26544185)
They are encrypted, but not e2e. It is a key distribution problem.

Threema solves it by scanning QR codes; for that, you need to physically meet with the other recipients, they need to bring their devices and scan each other QR codes (note that Threema still supports only one device per recipient; otherwise, the users would need to scan each other QR codes for each device).

It is not something that an average Telegram user would be willing to do.

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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by cat7a on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:14PM (#26535367)
The nice thing about TG, you can make your own custom client (without getting sued) and implement PGP over it; or whatever you want
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Re:Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners... by kitkat_new on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:28PM (#26524197)
what about being federated?
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