According to Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, Fb Messenger is a more secure messaging aplicación than Telegram.
WhatsApp is the most habitual instant messaging platform today more than 2,000 million monthly active usersbut it is also the most unsafe, as will be shown Leak data from different users that the misión-application has suffered in recent years.
Because of this, many users have decided to switch to safer alternatives like Telegram or Signal, but now the platform created by the Durov brothers has been heavily criticized by the founder of the latter. accused of not being a secure messaging aplicación.
These are the reasons why Telegram is not a safe messaging aplicación
As the guys from WinFuture tell usMoxie Marlinspike, the founder of Signal, posted a thread on Twitter explaining why Telegram is not a safe messaging application.
In this thread that we leave you below these lines, Marlinspike explains that he doesn’t know why the media keeps calling Telegram “encrypted messenger”.because despite the fact that this messaging platform has a large number of interesting features, it is the worst option in terms of privacy and data collection.
It amazes me that after all this time, Telegram is still referred to as an “encrypted messenger” in almost all media.
Telegram has many strong features, but when it comes to privacy and data collection, there is no worse option. This is how it actually works:
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—Moxie Marlinspike (@moxie) December 23, 2021
According to Signal’s founder, Telegram is one of the reasons supporting this statement Store on your servers all contacts, groups, media elementos and messages sent by users in plain text without encryptionThis means that all this data is also available to Telegram operators.
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In that sense, Marlinspike confirms that Telegram does not offer end-to-end encryption (Y también2EE)which is partially true since the messaging aplicación created by the Durov brothers It does not have end-to-end encryption by defaultbecause to be able to use this function it is necessary to use the secret talkswhose messages are not synchronized with other devices.
The creator of Signal also takes care of this end-to-end encryption It has a log of questionable quality and that even Fb Messenger is more secure than Telegram because emplees better Y también2EE protocol and has more features in encryption mode.
Despite these statements by the founder of Signal, Telegram has not suffered a data breach, and we must also highlight that Telegram emplees its own encryption algorithm based on MTProto 2.0 with SHA256, where The usuario only has the key to access the messages stored on their servers.