Are you sure people use Telegram for its security? I know I moved to Telegram and was able to bring over the people I most frequently chat with to Telegram as well. But I not necessarily moved to Telegram for its security features (the end-2-end encryption, and self destruct features). Most people dont use these special features, it limits to use of Telegram. One key aspect I'm using Telegram is the sync of chat history between all my devices. That feature comes with a cost. The content is stored centrally, and cannot allow end-2-end encryption. That basically means the Telegram owners/developers are able to read our messages. I was told the servers are in Europe, which was for me more ok then if they where based in eg Russia, or the USA.
I think another reason why lots of people using Telegram is the fact its so open for 3rd party applications to integrate with Telegram. Whole crypto universe is working with Telegram, likely for that reason.
Thanks for reading my post! Not necessarily for the end-to-end encryption I agree! As I already mentioned Whatsapp, Viber, and a lot of other competitors use end-to-end encryption as well and still you get ads (even inside the app), which means your data is still shared. One of the resons why the CEO and founder of Telegram, Durov is not living in Russia and moving from place to place is that Russian government wanted him to give them permission to control all the data.
Europe is very strict when it comes to privacy!
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Keep in mind, Whatsapp claims to provide end2end encryption, but apparently can swicth of end2end ecnryption without letting the users know. I never really researched this, so it may be fake news. But when they can, and when they do, we are not save for the NSA and CIA since the servers are located in the USA as far as I know. BTW, Telegram is working with authorities to catch some type of criminals. What they provide to the authorities, and how they work together, I don't know. Last time I checked, Telegram servers should be located in Berlin, Germany, so that in itself gives me some feeling for not too much abuse by Telegram in providing content to others.
Telegram gives out the informations if there are terrorist groups or attacking plans.
Many people that are not in that "line of work" are not concerned about this, their main concern is their photos and messages. In fact, Im really happy if telegram can find and give all the criminals that plan attacks.
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I understand where you comming from, but this is the deabte between privacy and to what extend authoristies shall have access to information about the individual. Only a few bad actors are required to missuse information they have access to. Shall we be fearing the possibility of bad actors misusing information about the individuals in society? Or shall we think positively, this will never happen? It would be too naive to think the later, therefore we shall be careful with who we give the ability to do something with all our digital information, and to what extend we allow them to be able to do something with this information.
I understand what you mean! And yes I agree, no platform is 100% safe to give all infos in it, thus pretty much many of our infos are in online databases, if we become a target theres is not much we can do!
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