Re: WhatsApp's New Policy Has...

[Richard Porter <richard () pedantictheory com>]

Has anyone considered or used Keybase?

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com> wrote:

> On 1/8/21 19:26, Drew Weaver wrote:
>
> > This might be anecdotal but there is a ton of debate about whether or
> not Telegram is encrypted.
> > This is not anecdotal though, on Wednesday night I saw an interview with
> a security expert on CNBC and he indicated that they knew that the riots in
> DC were going to happen because they had been "monitoring the extremists
> Telegram groups". What they didn't say was whether or not they were simply
> members of those groups, or monitoring from a "networking/technology"
> sense. I'm not sure if Signal does groups the same way that Telegram does
> but that one is widely believed to be much better than Telegram as far as
> privacy and security.
> > Telegram is a tremendously useful (and free service) for connecting to
> Elastalert for all manner of notifications, but we have since moved to
> Teams for that just because we can't really be sure what is going on under
> the hood with Telegram.
> > Just some things that I have observed, not trying to start a holy war.
>
> My rudimentary understanding of Telegram is that group messages are
> client-server, which is why new members can read old posts when they
> join a group.
>
> Signal, on the other hand, is p2p for members within the group. No
> messages are ever sent to their cloud.
>
> Mark.