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and are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:

Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
rys.io/en/171.html

Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.

Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.

Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.

They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.

Songs on the Security of Networks · Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"Telegram is a popular – especially in the East – internet messenger. It bills itself as “encrypted”, “private”, and “secure”. One of its creators (and the CEO of the company that operates the service)

@rysiek You might reconsider the part "Telegram vs Signal". Signal does not offer functionalities that are used by most users of Telegram. There is only "one small feature" in a "big Telegram shop" that can be replaced by Signal. The funny part is, that feature is not used by most users.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@stamberry the whole point of this piece is that:

1. Telegram bills itself as "encrypted IM" (which it is not)

2. Telegram constantly compares itself to Signal on security and privacy, claiming Signal is less secure and private (which is also false).

I do believe it's fair game to take Telegram to task on this.

If Telegram wants to not be compared unfavourably to Signal on secure IM features, it is welcome to stop comparing itself to Signal on secure IM features. 🤷‍♀️

@rysiek When you write a text about Telegram, you represent yourself, not "Telegram marketing team".
If today, you say "Signal is better than Telegram", to people who use Telegram, to join "groups" and "channels" with some kind of info, are you clarifying confusion or just adding to it?
What will they think, if they follow your advice?

@stamberry I am sure you asked very similar questions of Telegram's and Durov's social network accounts when they were misrepresenting Signal.

After all, I am merely *representing* Telegram, while Telegram was outright *misrepresenting* Signal.

I would not dare to imagine you not having enough integrity to do so. So I am eager to hear what they had to say to your valid points. Care to link to the thread?