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.