Post #2836346
2025-06-10 22:40 UTC
> In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties
🚨 Sneaky use of "private messages"!
Remember, Telegram has end-to-end encrypted "Secret Chats", which almost nobody uses; and then it has "Cloud Chats" for everything else.
They decided to add "private" here, as if "less private" non-Secret-Chat messages had been provided to third parties? .. :blobcateyes:
Yes, there are indications of just that if you're wondering:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/
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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2025-06-10 22:47
> and its encryption has never been hacked Ignoring dumb use of the h-word (🙄), Telegram encryption – specifically, the v1 of their homegrown MTProto protocol – had been shown to contain "a most backdoor-looking bug" some people have ever seen: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/ This has since been fixed, and MTProto 2 has been rolled out. But it still smells funny to a lot of cryptographers. More importantly though: the story is not about breaking Telegram's encryption Another red herring! 🧵