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Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by vanilla_nut on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:05PM (#28765622)
Back in high school when I started using telegram (2010ish?), I started using it because it wasn’t Whatsapp, it wasn’t owned by Facebook, and it had a really great UI. And I didn’t really understand the encryption implications.

Today I really wish it had full encryption. It says something about the developers that they’ve avoided default E2E for a full decade or more now. I’m trying to use signal more. But I also have years and years of telegram group chats to migrate…

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Re:Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Fa... by ikt on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:38PM (#28768540)
> It says something about the developers that they’ve avoided default E2E for a full decade or more now.

It's by design: https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by...

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