Quoting @matthew_d_green from the hellsite:
“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram”
Musk claimed that Signal has unpatched security vulnerabilities. As a cryptography expert I’m not aware of any: instead Signal has top-notch state-of-the-art encryption which has been adopted by its competitors it’s so good.
Telegram isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. It has no group chat encryption whatsoever. It uses a bizarre, badly designed “MTProto” protocol about which dozens of cryptography papers have documented myriad unfixed flaws.
@bascule
As much as I'm not a fan of Signal and of anything really, relying on phone numbers, no one can deny that Double Ratchet itself is solid and sound design and has been adopted in Matrix and in XMMP as OMEMO and numerous other messengers not using standardised protocols.
Bringing up Telegram as being superior is just laughable 😩
