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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by mlindner on Saturday August 24, 2024 @08:12PM (#41343068)
I find it highly amusing that people on here actually think secure messaging platforms are "locally backdoored".

Despite what the article says, Telegram is not even a nominally end-to-end encrypted platform. You need to jump through hoops to get end-to-end encryption on the platform.

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by sansii on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:06AM (#41346079)
"You need to jump through hoops to get end-to-end encryption on the platform."

What do you mean by this?

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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:39AM (#41346252)
It's opt in
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by tillulen on Sunday August 25, 2024 @12:08PM (#41348381)
On Telegram, even private messages are not end-to-end encrypted by default. The so-called secret chats are end-to-end encrypted but are a major pain to use.
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Re:Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport by akikoo on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:37AM (#41356532)
> but are a major pain to use

It's a major pain for gen z

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