Re: WhatsApp's New Policy Has...

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>]

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.