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39 lines
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# Telegram sucks
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Telegram sucks, I don't know why people think it is more secure than
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other applications. Like [whatsapp](whatsapp) at least bothers on
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encrypthing the messages (we don't konw if it is backdoored or
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not. but well at least it is)
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# The client
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In telegram, messages are not end-to-end encrypted so the russians who
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operate it can read them.
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>\>inb4 you can use secret chats in telegram which are encrypted.
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Yes. Those secrets chats are enabled by default and supported fnord in
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telegram-desktop.
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For some reason I don't understand, telegram-desktop depends in a
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wayland library (even though i'm using X)
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Then, you can use `telegram-cli` which is the most confusing thing
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i've seen in a lot of time but it supports the secret chat thing
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# The server
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I don't know man. It is proprietary.
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# The data it asks for
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* Phone Number
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Like, why? XMPP (for example), minimally, asks for a JID and that's
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it. That's how other users will find you
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# Further readings
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[Signal sucks](signal)
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