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Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app (cdn.imgchest.com)

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“Telegram is not a private messenger. There’s nothing private about it. It’s the opposite. It’s a cloud messenger where every message you’ve ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that Telegram the organization controls and has access to it”

“It’s like a Russian oligarch starting an unencrypted version of WhatsApp, a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. Somehow, they’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives in Russia, and their families are there.”

" What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. So that’s in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone’s like, oh, France. But I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn’t have access to the data and couldn’t respond to that same request. To me it’s very obvious that Russia would’ve had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment"

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[–] Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago

Just...
Don't let them deceive you;

If you must use deceitful software like Gmail, Whatsapp, Discord, office or whatever, just try your best not to leak your personal data on them, and if you can hinder the tracking, do so.

If you can use other (preferably FOSS) software, do so, there's plenty of solutions out there and most of them are free, and sometimes selfhost-able.

Google, Meta, Microsoft or whatever corp can lie about security or privacy all they want, but in the end, they only fool themself thinking their monetary practices aren't obvious and they can fool everyone, trust is a hard thing to earn and they can't earn it with fraud.

The product mostly show itself, and you have to go around it to know what's it's deal, if you prefer to not do so, you can search if any security researcher or analyst did investigate the product; For example Google claims Chrome browser is "safe" and "secure" dispute them giving so much trackable APIs for websites, and having a horrable default permissions, and don't forget the "Manifest V3" transition just to remove ads (and trackers) blockers like uBlock Origin.
You don't need solid proof to know what is what.

And then you just type " Foss Chrome Alternatives" or "Private Browsers" on a search engine like DDG where you can find many articles to help you find one (like this) and you'd be done.

Forget about ""Others"" right now, your well-being matters the most.