Pavel Durov could be indicted in the morning.
      • istanbullu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        43·
        3 months ago

        The fact that Signal has not run into legal trouble when Telegram has.

        Also Signal has some really shady practices, such as rejecting and killing all third party clients.

        • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          3 months ago

          The algorithm for the end to end encryption is open source as far as I know. Should be easy for security researchers to prove that something is manipulated…

          • istanbullu@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            3 months ago

            Signal had long periods of blackouts when they did not publish server side code. Calling Signal open source is really a stretch.

            • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              I’m calling the E2E algirithm open source. That’s the reason why WhatsApp is using it, too. As long as the message is correctly encrypted for E2E on the client side, it should not matter what the server is doing as far as I know.

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            3 months ago

            The algorithm for the end to end encryption is open source as far as I know. Should be easy for state actors to read through it and break it

            Ftfy

        • XioR112@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

          Signal have been blocked in several countries including Russia and Telegram has more users there and it isn’t blocked.