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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

Thanks for this writeup. I have had many people tell me I should use Telegram because it's "safe and secure" and I no longer try to argue, I just laugh.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@Ehay2k it's chilling how well Durov's misdirection works