Their text explicitly acknowledges and waives away the security concerns for themselves.
replyHow so? I genuinely don't know, despite casually using both.
replyOpposite end in terms of security. Telegram group chats have no E2EE, private messages aren't E2EE by default (you have to initiate it as a "secret" chat), and the encryption itself is home rolled.
replyYup exactly, their home rolled encryption is problematic in and of itself, but the fact that it lacks E2EE means you shouldn’t even trust it in the first place.
replyThey do publish https://telegram.org/blog/tdlib so couldn't a client author just do shared key encryption or something?
replyAlso opposite in terms of feature-richness.
replyIt also contains scam advertisement by now.
replyIt,s quite clear what you never used it. UX wise it's one of the best clients and probably in the top 3 network-wise.
replyIt's deeply insecure in most of the ways it is used.
replyBut people don't care about security, that is obvious, they only care about UX
replyI should have been clearer in my initial post, but I was referring to the security issues with telegram rather than the UI.
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