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Re:Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encr... by tffgg on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:21AM (#27879786)
It's not a quality guarantee for clients in practice since you can't control Client Side with open source

Regarding Riot, which is called Element by now, you may want to update your knowledge

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Re:Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encr... by maqp on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:45AM (#27883213)
Yeah I'm familiar with Riot being called Element now, and you don't need to look further than this chat for me to state that.

"It's not a quality guarantee for clients in practice since you can't control Client Side with open source"

What? Open source native client with reproducible builds is literally the gold standard of individual control over software, it's even GPL licenced.

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