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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by scarface_74 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:29AM (#41497436)
Well, Telegram is by definition not as a secure as iMessage. Telegram messages are by default not encrypted on the server. Even when it is encrypted on the server, telegram has the keys and can decrypt it.

They have the decryption keys

https://telegram.org/faq#:~:text=To%20protect%20the%20data%2....

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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by eitland on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:44AM (#41497505)
You rebutted something GP didn't write.
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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by bee_rider on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:07AM (#41500418)
This is true (one is talking about zero-click zero days, the other is talking about “privacy,” not sure if they mean privacy against Facebook or privacy against other users of their device).

But the comment that kicked off the thread was the one about privacy.

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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by bcg361 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @07:57PM (#41506870)
Telegram isn't as private as iMessage, but that doesn't mean it's not as secure. Security-wise, exploiting iMessage is easier than exploiting telegram, since iMessages has some special privileged access. Security doesn't mean privacy.
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Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max by scarface_74 on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @07:45PM (#41516298)
The issue with parsing images in a process was fixed awhile back. If you are really paranoid, you can put your iPhone in “lockdown mode”.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

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