BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by baran1 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @07:28PM (#9535700)

What about Telegram?

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Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by MichaelGG on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @09:09PM (#9536091)

Telegram should be avoided. They do weird things with their security and ignored criticism on it. The key verification requires checking an image, so you can't do it over the phone. Plus closed source, so you're very likely entirely depending on trusting Telegram.

Their response to using AES IGM? It's along the lines of "yeah this strange mode no one uses has issues but not in the way we use it so whatever. We've got math PhDs, so trust us."

I'm no expert, but I get a really bad feeling about them, since it's the totally wrong attitude to take.

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Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by leni536 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:10PM (#9536340)

>closed source

I can't comment on the other arguments, but the client of Telegram is certainly FOSS [1]. Their service being open source is irrelevant, since you couldn't verify it anyway.

[1] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.telegram.messenger

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Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by vonuebelgarten on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @07:55PM (#9535824)

Due to the general architecture, I think it's better compare Bleep with Tox.

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